This is a charming story of illicit romance, set against the world of the burgeoning Silk trade in eighteenth-century Spitalfields - a time of religious persecution, mass migration, racial tension and wage riots, and very different ideas of what was considered \'proper\' for women..
This is a charming story of illicit romance, set against the world of the burgeoning Silk trade in eighteenth-century Spitalfields - a time of religious persecution, mass migration, racial tension and wage riots, and very different ideas of what was considered \'proper\' for women.