Orphaned at ten, the narrator is mistress of a stone farmhouse and lands in the interior of Pennsylvania, and is taken from her home to live with her guardian. Her girlhood, a wedding, the arrival of a girl named Lottie and a dismissal from the house that wounds her pride make up a story of a life broken and mended.
Domestic fiction by one of the most popular American women novelists of the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.