Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by George Mears, William Powell Frith and Thomas Gainsborough. A young woman is cheated of her inheritance and takes a place in the household of the man who holds it, under a name that is not hers. Mrs Simpson wrote for the Victorian circulating libraries, where a wronged heroine, a disputed will and a villain with excellent manners were what the subscription bought — and she supplied them with a straight face and considerable pace. Fifty-nine plates, from Frith to Collier, picture the fortunes of the poor, the sick and the newly dressed, the very world of the wronged heroine and the disputed will.