Hold on to your dreams

By Karen Abbott

Subjects: Social status, Aunts, Fiction, Family relationships, Orphans, Life change events

Description: Following her father's financial ruin and the untimely deaths of both her parents, Emily's comfortable life in Society comes to an end. Her pride prevents her from letting the man she loves know that her feelings for him are unchanged, so she throws herself upon the mercies of her aunt-- a malicious woman. Although forced to work as a servant, Emily's dreams linger on.