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What happens when love shares a home with big dreams—and someone has to manage the everyday life?
In Marjorie Benton Cooke’s Bambi, a bright, practical heroine meets love, money and work with quick wit and heart. This warm romantic comedy follows two people learning to live together. Marriage is not simply a prize to win: it takes patience, argument and effort, especially when ambition makes its demands.
Bambi sees the world with a cheerful eye, but living beside a gifted dreamer brings real questions. Dreams need time and money, and someone must help carry their cost. Cooke explores the work behind romance through a heroine whose practical outlook gives the story its humour and its warmth.
What you’ll discover
- A quick-witted heroine Meet Bambi, whose cheerful, practical outlook shapes this comedy of love and daily life.
- Marriage beyond the romance Explore a relationship that needs managing and working at, not merely winning.
- The cost of dreams Consider who supplies the time, money and patience that a gifted dreamer needs.
- Humour with a heart Enjoy a gentle romantic comedy that finds warmth in the difficulties of living together.
- A glimpse of its time Discover early twentieth-century American ideas about marriage and women’s lives, including attitudes that feel dated.
Who will love it
Readers who love quick, witty comedy, spirited heroines and a peek behind the stage door of early twentieth century New York will feel at home here. It suits anyone who enjoys a love story built on talk and mix-ups.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A bride picks a husband at breakfast
- A strange household and a flawed play
- A secret prize sends them to New York
- Managers, stairs and a fierce little salesman
- Home again, a secret career and a jealous husband
- Jarvis alone in the city
- A book, a manager and a conspiracy of love
- What the story is really about
- How the story is told
Who’s who
- Bambi (Francesca Parkhurst)A bright, nineteen-year-old who marries a penniless playwright to look after him and, in secret, becomes a successful writer herself.
- Jarvis JocelynA handsome young idealist who writes serious plays about the brotherhood of man and has to learn the hard way how to sell them.
- Professor James ParkhurstBambi's absent-minded mathematician father, who counts everything he does and forgets almost everything else.
- ArdeliaThe family cook, loyal, funny and plain-spoken, who forgets her orders and keeps a close eye on everyone's love life.
- Richard StrongThe magazine editor who gives Bambi her first prize, becomes her friend and quietly hopes for more.
- Charles FrohmanThe Broadway manager who sees something in Jarvis's play, then helps Bambi carry out her secret plan.
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Bambi
by Marjorie Benton Cooke · 1914
A nineteen-year-old weds a penniless playwright between breakfast and lunch, then sets out to make him famous.
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Bambi is a comic novel by Marjorie Benton Cooke, an American writer who died in 1920. It follows Francesca Parkhurst, called Bambi, a nineteen-year-old who decides over breakfast that she will marry the penniless young playwright Jarvis Jocelyn.
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A bride picks a husband at breakfast
The novel opens with Bambi telling her father, Professor James Parkhurst, that he has failed as an educator. He taught her to be happy, but happiness pays badly, and she wants a profession. The Professor is a mathematician so absent-minded that he once set off for class in his pajamas. Bambi has run his life since she was five.
She has also chosen a husband. His name is Jarvis Jocelyn, a handsome, poetic young man with no money and no interest in earning any. Her reasoning is wonderfully practical. He will starve unless someone takes him in, and she is used to looking after helpless men. Her father objects, but nobody has ever won an argument with her.
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What is Bambi by Marjorie Benton Cooke about?
It follows a young woman named Bambi who marries a penniless playwright, Jarvis Jocelyn, to look after him. As he struggles to sell his plays in New York, she secretly builds a writing career of her own.
Who is Jarvis Jocelyn in Bambi?
Jarvis is a tall, handsome, idealistic playwright who writes about the brotherhood of man and ignores money. He is so lost in his work that he barely notices his own wedding, and he learns slowly how to live.
When was Bambi written and where is it set?
It is a work of fiction by an American author who died in 1920. The story is set in a small college town and in New York in the years just before the First World War.
The author
Marjorie Benton Cooke
1876–1920 · American novelist and playwright
Marjorie Benton Cooke was an American novelist, playwright, and monologue performer. She was born in 1876 and died in 1920. She lived in the United States and wrote during the early twentieth century. Her novels include Bambi, published in 1914, and The Cricket, published in 1915.
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