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Major Barbara Summary & Study Guide Description
Major Barbara Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Major Barbara Plot Summary
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Act I
Major Barbara opens with Lady Britomart In the library of her house in London, England, as her son Stephen, whom she has summoned, enters. She has asked to see him, she reveals, because of her concern about his future financial well-being, as well as that of his sisters, Sarah and Barbara. The audience learns that her daughter Sarah is engaged to Charles Lomax, who will not be able to support her until he receives his inheritance. It is also revealed that her other daughter, Barbara, who has joined the Salvation Army, is engaged to Adolphus Cusins, a Greek scholar who also has an insufficient income and who, Lady Britomart believes, only pretends to be a Salvationist because he is In love with Barbara. Stephen as well should soon seek a wife and will need to provide for his own family.
For this additional monetary support, Lady Britomart tells Stephen...
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