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A Studio on Bleecker Street
The story of Clara Bowman, the daughter of a wealthy New York City family, who loses her best friend and the man she expects to marry in a train accident on May 12, 1872. She takes a different course from the one charted for her as she recovers.
Róisín Campbell
Róisín Campbell was eighteen when she stepped from a boat in New York Harbor in the summer of 1870. She knew little of the world beyond what she saw in her small town in County Limerick and what she read in the novels she devoured when her chores were done. She knew no one in New York other than her cousin Jimmy Regan and Michael Henry, a dapper gay gentleman she met on board who would become her confidante and advisor.Róisín received training from the Sisters of Mercy andwas hired as a maid in the wealthy house of Charles and Abigail Geherty. Circumstances, including the unwarranted hatred of the oldest daughter, Mary, led to her dismissal from there and from a second fashionable house....
Róisín Campbell
The Story of an Irish farmgirl who comes to New York City in 1870.
I Am Alex Locus
Nine years after her mother's death, Alex Locus learns her mother wrote stories. They are in the family's home in Bronxville, New York. She begins to explore them and with them to explore her mother's life and loves and agonies. And the truth about her family.
A Studio on Bleecker Street
Clara Bowman is like most society women recently turned 18 in New York in the early days of the Gilded Age. Until the man everyone expects her to marry dies in a train accident in Queens n May 1872. Her ordered life turns to shambles until she discovers an artist painting roses in a corner of London's Regent's Park and who ignites in Clara a passion to recover through sketches and portraits and landscapes, freed of the expectations of others and freed to be herself.It will take time, work, and disappointments and obstacles for Miss Clara Bowman. This is the story about her breaking free from her family's and society's expectations. It is not an easy journey, though she eventually obtains her family's support, and she encounters real and emotional pain again and again, but this story, set in the early days of the Gilded Age, is about a woman's fulfillment.This novel is related to, but is not a sequel to, Róisín Campbell, published in 2020. Many characters in that book appear here and some of their stories after the end of that book are revealed here. This is, however, a separate story. That of Clara Bowman.
Becoming Catherine Bennet
A Pride and Prejudice variation that chiefly follows Kitty Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet, and Anne de Bourgh in the years after British success in the Battle of Waterloo.
A Maid's Life
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Róisín Campbell
This is a story set in the 1870s of an Irishwoman, raised on a farm in County Limerick, who emigrates to New York. There, she begins her life as a maid in a fashionable house, only to find herself excluded from that world and be forced to fend for herself.After a period as a salesgirl in a Manhattan department store, she becomes a nurse and will, over time, care for her pregnant sister from Ireland and fall in love with a fashionable woman, forced from her world by bankruptcy and a vindictive sister.
A Maid's Life
Margaret Treacy, a poor farmgirl in Ireland, comes to New York, hoping to find a position as a maid in a fashionable house. And she does. But it all falls apart when she's dismissed without an explanation and set adrift. A maid for a never-in-fashion new-money family, a factory worker, and a nun. She leaves the order when she learns that her first mistress couldn't bear her presence. Because it prevented her from fulfilling her obligation to "love" a man and have his children. Margaret and that woman, Elinor, arrange to be together, however platonically, till Elinor's world is shattered when she and her daughter are forcibly taken to London. And it becomes Margaret's obsession to get her back. And to save her.
