Julie book by Jane Kesner Morris

Unfolding against a nineteenth-century background, the frivolous society gatherings of England at the time of the Crimean War to the public soup kitchens of an America torn by social and economic unrest, this is the story of a young Englishwoman and the life she chose, a life radically different from the one to which she was born. Interwoven with the theme of Julie's two loves, very different in emotional content, are brilliant and intimate images of times both turbulent and refined, lavishness, of London and Holland, of the Haymarket riots of Chicago, and of the growing American theater. With complete conviction and emotional understanding, the author has created a story of pioneering as real, as dramatic, as that of the frontier.