The Rag Nymph
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- Synopsis
- Millie Forester was seven years old, surprisingly well dressed, well spoken, and composed for one suddenly abandoned by a panic-stricken mother in an all-too-obvious flight from the law. She came into Aggie Winkowski's life like a bolt from the blue, thrust upon her in a bizarre moment of drama in the shadows of a mean street sweltering in the heat of a late June afternoon in 1854. Aggie was known hereabouts as "Raggie Aggie," for trading in rags and old clothes was her long-established business. Yet she could remember when this was still open country, with meadows .and pastures farmed by her own family through three generations since they had come to the north of England as Polish emigres. As the nineteenth century progressed, however, the Industrial Revolution turned the nearby town into a voracious city, swallowing up the land and covering it with factories and a maze of slums. But Aggie had survived and adapted to this harsh new world, and so had the old farmhouse in its high-walled yard for which she was heading when she first encountered Millie Forester.
- Copyright:
- 1991
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 341 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780671864774
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 10/18/05
- Copyrighted By:
- Catherine Cookson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Karen Johnson
- Proofread By:
- Grace Pires
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.