![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amid her social confusion, she is introduced to the problems of immigrant groups and the poor Clara is forbidden to think about helping them.Īs the balls and parties of the debutante season progress, Clara finds Harry to be kind and have surprising insight into God and what God expects from His followers. Unfortunately, Clara’s best friend, Lizzie, is set on catching Franklin, too, and Clara’s heart prefers Harry, Franklin’s younger brother. Thus starts Clara’s social-education whirlwind and her formal introduction into high society.Ĭlara’s father and aunt insist on her catching a rich husband, none other than Franklin De Vries, the heir to the De Vries fortune. Those hopes are dashed when Clara’s Aunt announces that Clara will be debuting, and Miss Miller is dismissed. Miss Miller, Clara’s governess, has prepared Clara to attend Vassar College. This is the era of hoopskirts and corsets, debutantes and balls, rules and expectations, and old money being challenged by new.Ĭlara’s mother died when Clara was a girl. Clara Carter, the only child of a prominent New York City doctor, is a 17-year-old girl living in the Gilded Age of the 1890s. ![]()
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