TY - BOOK AU - Baldwin,May TI - Sarah's School Friend AV - PZ PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Social classes -- England -- Juvenile fiction KW - Family -- England -- Juvenile fiction KW - Young women -- England -- Juvenile fiction KW - Industrialists -- Juvenile fiction KW - Strikes and lockouts -- Juvenile fiction N1 - Release date is 2006-12-09; E-text prepared by Louise Pryor, Chris Curnow, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Sarah's School Friend" by May Baldwin is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around Sarah Clay, a young girl from a wealthy manufacturing family, as she navigates her complex relationships with her parents and society. The book explores themes of class, identity, and the struggles between personal desires and family expectations. At the start of the novel, Sarah is in her lavish home, grappling with her feelings about her father, a self-made millionaire. The opening scenes depict a tense family dynamic, particularly her disdain for her father's coarse manners and her mother's attempts to fit into a higher social class. Sarah's reflective nature leads her to question the authenticity of her family's wealth and her place in society. The interaction between her and her brother George reveals underlying tensions about their identities and ambitions, setting the stage for Sarah's impending growth as she anticipates the visit of her school friend, Horatia Cunningham, a girl from a noble lineage. The backdrop of their industrial town paints a vivid picture of the contrasts between wealth and the lives of the mill-workers that surround them. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20068 ER -