The Glass Virgin Author:Catherine Cookson When Annabella Lagrange was seven she thought the world was a delightful place to live in and only occasionally wondered why her parents never took her outside of their magnificent English countryside estate. When she was ten, she decided that the seclusion really didn't matter very much, because when she grew up, she would marry her handsome c... more »ousin Stephen and never be lonely again. And when she was eighteen, and learned the circumstances of her birth, her entire world quietly crashed around her.
So begins the remarkable story of Annabella Lagrange, a sensitive, beautiful, and very feminine woman who was raised as a lady, but forced from the genteel surroundings of her yourth into the rough, class-divided society of Victorian England whre only her quick wit and determination saved her from starvation.« less