Brought Home

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Augustus Egg, William Morris Hunt and Luke Fildes. A woman drinks, and her household — husband, servants, the parish — arranges itself around the fact, concealing it, until it cannot be concealed. Stretton was Sarah Smith of Shropshire, who took her pen name from her sisters' initials and a village on the map; Jessica's First Prayer outsold Alic...