"The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow" by Annie S. Swan is a story set in the late 1800s about a young girl named Gladys Graham, whose life takes a turn when she becomes an orphan, forcing her to leave behind a life of artistry when she goes to live with her miserly uncle in Glasgow, Scotland. She experiences a stark contrast when she leaves her simple life in a small Lincolnshire village and moves to an unfamiliar city filled with hardship. As Gladys embraces a life marked by poverty and struggle, she finds an unexpected friendship with a boy named Walter Hepburn who helps her adapt to her challenging new life. The novel focuses the themes of resilience, the bonds of family, and the difficult realities of society.
The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow
By Annie S. Swan
After losing her father, a young girl must move in with her stingy uncle in Glasgow, forcing her to navigate a world of poverty, searching for friendship and strength in unexpected places.
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About the AuthorAnnie Shepherd Swan, CBE was a Scottish journalist and fiction writer. She wrote mainly in her maiden name, but also as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. A writer of romantic fiction for women, she had over 200 novels, serials, stories and other fiction published between 1878 and her death. She has been called "one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". Swan was politically active in the First World War, and as a suffragist, a Liberal activist and founder-member and vice-president of the Scottish National Party.
Annie Shepherd Swan, CBE was a Scottish journalist and fiction writer. She wrote mainly in her maiden name, but also as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. A writer of romantic fiction for women, she had over 200 novels, serials, stories and other fiction published between 1878 and her death. She has been called "one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". Swan was politically active in the First World War, and as a suffragist, a Liberal activist and founder-member and vice-president of the Scottish National Party.
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