Abigail Hardiman
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London, 1888: Eighteen-year-old seamstress Kathryn Flynn lives in Whitechapel, London, struggling to support her widowed mother and younger siblings. But when her work starts drying up and her mother falls ill, she is forced to consider desperate measures. Then she meets Squire, an older city gentleman; and claiming to be Miss Bella Cartwright, she attempts to draw some charity from him as he buys her a drink. Squire has an offer for her: work in...