Title: Alice-for-short
Description: In late Victorian England, a lower-class family with lots of drinking problems: in a drunken rage, the father fatally injures the mother and then kills himself. The little girl is left an orphan and is taken in by a well-to-do family. The story then follows their lives for the next 25 years or so.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, Romance fiction, Man-woman relationships, Orphans, Women
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century