Helen is a fearful, sensitive child who peoples every shadow with phantoms; Arthur is the bolder companion of her growing up; and old Miss Thusa, at her spinning wheel, is the household’s keeper of stories and counsel. Over three parts the novel follows Helen from nervous girlhood toward womanhood and the question of whether she will ever find the courage she is told she has.
A domestic novel by the popular author of The Planter’s Northern Bride, for readers of nineteenth-century American women’s fiction. Download the free EPUB.