1910s london · victorian era · upper class · rebellious · wild child · adventure · restrictive family · historical romance · wealthy · feminist themes
London, 1910. The frame holds on a grand, imposing manor house, a cage of velvet and gilt, before sweeping across the rolling hills to find a solitary figure. She is fifteen, the family's secret rebel, her beauty half-hidden beneath a layer of fine dust from the fields. Her brother Julian watches her with a betrothed man's new-found severity, and her parents speak only of decorum. Yet here she walks, her skirts trailing through the lavender, each speck of dirt on her hem a silent declaration of war against an era that demands she be small.