The Young Step-Mother

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, Francis Grant and William Powell Frith. A woman of twenty-four marries a widower with three grown-ish children and a house that has run itself badly for years, and gets almost everything wrong before she gets it right. Yonge lived her whole life in one Hampshire village, taught Sunday school there for seventy-one years, and ...