1. Mozart’s Sister
Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart is an exceptional keyboard player who tours Europe with her younger brother Wolfgang under the direction of their father, Leopold. Courts celebrate both children, but as adolescence approaches the family’s ambition increasingly centres on the son whose compositions promise fame and income.…
2. Just Jane
Jane Austen grows up in a clergyman’s household where family, neighbours, visits and local scandals provide a continuing education in character. Her sharp observations become stories, but the path from private manuscript to published novel is uncertain for a woman without independent wealth or public authority.…
3. Washington’s Lady
Martha Dandridge Custis is a wealthy young widow with children when she marries George Washington. Their partnership carries her from Mount Vernon through the disruptions of revolution, where she repeatedly joins the Continental Army’s winter camps and manages the private responsibilities created by her husband’s public…
4. How Do I Love Thee?
Elizabeth Barrett is already a respected poet but lives as an invalid under the controlling authority of her father, who forbids his children to marry. A letter from the younger poet Robert Browning begins an intense correspondence that develops into clandestine meetings and a love strong…