The Sweetest Thing: A Novel of Victorian York (Soundings S., #2811)

by Fiona Shaw

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When Harriet, a working-class girl who, with her friend Mary has left her coastal job of collecting and gutting fish, stops on a bridge in her newly adopted home in York, she is approached by an upper-class gentleman. Samuel is a Quaker, a good soul, and a man interested in the new science of photography. He also collects photographs of working-class girls in their working clothes. Samuel invites the girls to come to his friend's studio. While Mary is almost instantly lost to the art of photography, Harriet, a sturdier sort, goes on to get a job in the...Read more
  • ISBN10 095732720X
  • ISBN13 9780957327207
  • Publish Date 9 August 2012 (first published 16 January 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Stone's Throw Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 448
  • Language English
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