Whisked away to America when her father is falsely accused of slave trading, Catherine Newbury disguises her identity and becomes a sought-after seamstress in Philadelphia, where she catches the eye of an architect who met her before she went into hiding.
year: 2008
call number/section: 1000
subjects: fathers and daughters, fiction, false imprisonment, women dressmakers, father-daughter relationship, father-child relationship, pennsylvania, fiction