John Seymour, a serious and well-off New Englander, falls for Lillie Ellis, a fashionable beauty with a talent for getting her way. Marriage brings her into his old family home, where she sets about redecorating his life, his household and his sister Grace, with excursions to Newport and a Paris-loving set along the way.
A lighter, satirical side of the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, aimed at fashion, divorce and the marriage market of the 1870s. Download the free EPUB.