Carol M. Cram

In a world determined to silence them, one group of women dares to sing. In the hard streets of 1890s Briarstown, a Yorkshire mill town marked by poverty and loss, Eliza Kingwell struggles to survive while raising five daughters.

Virtuoso pianist Isabette Grüber captivates audiences in the salons and concert halls of early nineteenth-century Vienna. Yet in a profession dominated by men, Isabette longs to compose and play her own music - a secret she keeps from both her lascivious manager and her resentful mother. She...

Sofia is trained in secret as a painter in her father's workshop during a time when women did not paint openly. She loves her work, but her restless spirit leads her to betray her extraordinary gifts to marry a man who comes to despise her for not producing a son. After Sofia's father is crushed...