At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant

This vibrant novel recreates a lively and fascinating historical period when women claimed a new and more active role in London's literary scene. Yet it is through her own experience that she finds a new matrimony with which to face her unknown future. Meg seeks wisdom from almanacs and astrologers, plays and books of jests, guides for ladies and guides for midwives. Yet it is through her own experience that. But her father remarries, and Megs plans are suddenly in ruins. Then she will be independent and can choose her own husband. When she grows up, she will inherit the shop. Meg resists the overtures and edicts of her stepmother with a cleverness equaled only by her fierceness, but in spite of it all her rival's belly soon swells with what Meg fears will be her father's new heir. Meg seeks wisdom from almanacs and astrologers, plays and books of jests, guides for ladies and guides for midwives. In 1677, 12-year-old Meg loves working with her widowed father in his London bookshop. She knows that someday she will have her pick of suitors, and that with the. Moore's unexpected marriage throws all Meg's dreams into confusion. The tale of a bookseller's daughterMeg Moore is the motherless and only child of a bookseller with a thriving business in Restoration London-and that makes her an heiress. She knows that someday she will have her pick of suitors, and that with the right husband she can continue in the book trade and be friends with wits and authors, as her father is.

Meg Moore is the motherless and only child of a bookseller with a thriving business in Restoration London-and that makes her an heiress.

At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant