Amarilly helps the scrub ladies at the Barlow Stock Theatre to feed her widowed mother and a crowd of younger brothers, until a dress rehearsal of a melodrama lights a spark of ambition. When the wealthy young Gordon Meredith takes an interest in her, the girl from Clothes-Line Alley must work out what she owes her family and what she wants for herself.
A sentimental American rags-and-riches romance from 1915, told largely in Amarilly’s vivid street dialect. Download the free EPUB.