The Daisy Chain: or, Aspirations | a Smidgen Press republication (annotated)

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When you’re raised to believe that sacrifice makes you worthy, what will you give for the family you love?

Etheldred is an awkward, ungainly girl who yearns to do right but often causes mischief. She longs to comfort, but instead causes grief.

Through daily trials and triumphs of family life in Victorian England, Ethel May grows and learns of sorrow, honesty, and love. Raised on Victorian morals and aspirations just out of reach, she will decide what her true purpose is and who she will live her life for.

A stunning example of Victorian era writing, Charlotte Yonge first penned The Daisy Chain as a religious response to Jane Eyre. Recently described by reviewers as a YA novel of the 1800s, this lengthy novel was forerunner to and inspiration for great works of fiction like Little Women and such heroines as Anne Shirley.

This 800-page tome is set in an easily readable font. Beautifully preserved for the modern reader, this edition is re-typeset for print and optimized for e-reader.
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Content note. This book is edited to remove four uses of a racially insensitive term which was common in the Victorian era. See the Smidgen Press blog for more details and to access the unedited version.