Joanna Traill, Spinster
Author: first_name: Annie E.
last_name: Holdsworth
Language: English
Year: 1894

Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters.  Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a chance at a better life.  Through Mr. Boas, Joanna has the opportunity to take in as a ward a girl from a troubled background.  When she takes Christine under her wing, her lonely, monotonous life starts to change for the better, and she learns to assert herself and live on her own terms, not her sisters’.<br><br>

As the years pass, Christine gets to know