When Times Were Tough
Page, Phillip A When Times Were Tough - the title tells it all as the story is set in the late 1700s, when times certainly were tough for most during that period of history. The story depicts life as it was during those harsh and often cruel times while travelling from one side of the world to the other.
The story commences in a seaport in the south of England, Portsmouth, where Elizabeth, a teenager, was living with her parents, a surgeon and his wife. Eliza...