Eighteen-year-old Carrie Welton is restless, unhappy, and ill-suited to the conventions of nineteenth-century New England.
As she struggles to find her own talent and identity, Carrie wanders from.
Leaving behind personal horrors and the restraints of -good society-, she moves to New York, where a group of young artists are beginning to transform that city and make a name for themselves.
When she is presented with an opportunity to escape is a socially approved manner, she leaps at the chance.
Eighteen-year-old Carrie Welton is restless, unhappy, and ill-suited to the conventions of nineteenth-century New England