Written from the border of the battlefield in 1861, this is the story of Margret Howth, who takes a bookkeeping job in a woollen mill to support her ageing parents. The mill’s owner, Stephen Holmes, once loved her before choosing ambition, and around them move a crippled girl named Lois and Dr. Knowles, a fiery social reformer.
An early American realist novel by the author of Life in the Iron Mills, unflinching about labour and poverty. Download the free EPUB.