A City Girl
Harkness, Margaret / Mutch, Deborah![A City Girl](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/188/18865899/CHSBZCOP0318865899.jpg)
Nelly Ambrose is an East End seamstress with ideas above her station. Discontented with her reliable but conservative fiancé, George, she falls for the urbane charms of middle-class Arthur Grant, a married man bothered by few moral scruples. In her first novel, Harkness presents a vivid and troubling depiction of working-class life in late-Victorian London. Based on her own experience of the slums, she exposes the appalling conditions experien...