Isabel: The Quest for Freedom

Isabel Morton's prominent Nova Scotia family wants the best for their twenty-four-year-old daughter-a suitable marriage-but Isabel will have none of it. She wants to be free, even if it means she must live as an "old maid" in a garret. Then she meets William Wishart, who offers her the freedom to follow her own stars if she marries him.

But how does a woman follow her own stars in a culture where women are the property of their fathers, or if married, their husbands, and are to be meek, pio...