A riveting story of a time when woman's place was in the home but a few intrepid souls made a niche, through dire circumstances, in the business world. Hannah Shaw, in this story, rises from poor relative status to the the dizzying heights of matriarch of a silk empire, but not without paying some huge emotional costs. It's all about choices. And some she didn't get to make for herself, because men had almost complete ownership over women back in the days before the Civil War.

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