Reference guide for writers providing details of day-to-day life in Renaissance England, covering fashion, food, family, royalty, work, and the law in the period from 1485 to 1649.
In 1887, when her missionary parents have gone to China without her, snobbish twelve-year-old Julia is sent to a farm in upstate New York where she breaks a leg, while it mends learns to love and accept her country cousins and heal her anger.