Gabriella Carr grows up in genteel poverty in Richmond, where women of her class are expected to wait for marriage. Defying her family, she takes work in a shop, marries the charming George Fowler and follows him to New York, where his infidelity forces her to start again with two children and her own talent for dressmaking.
A forceful portrait of a woman’s independence by the Virginia novelist who later won the Pulitzer Prize. Download the free EPUB.