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The heiress who refused to stay in her lane. In 2016, Connecticut author Charles Monagan gave one of New England’s most remarkable women the novel she deserved. Carrie Welton is historical fiction at its most alive — the story of a restless eighteen-year-old chafing against nineteenth-century Hartford’s conventions, who grows into a fearless advocate for the voiceless.
Based on the real Carrie Welton, a celebrated Hartford heiress devoted to animal welfare, the novel follows its heroine from drawing-room expectations to a life of purpose — painting a vivid portrait of Gilded Age Connecticut: its mansions and mills, its propriety and its hypocrisies.
Monagan, praised by the Historical Novel Society for one of the smoothest reads in the genre, writes with wit, warmth, and a historian’s eye for detail. This is a book for readers who love strong-minded heroines, richly imagined period settings, and stories of women who refused to stay in the lane marked out for them.
In 2016, Connecticut author Charles Monagan gave one of New England’s most remarkable women the novel she deserved. Carrie Welton is historical fiction at its most alive — the story of a restless eighteen-year-old chafing against the conventions of nineteenth-century Hartford, who grows into a fearless advocate for the voiceless.
Based on the life of the real Carrie Welton, a celebrated Hartford heiress remembered for her devotion to animal welfare, the novel follows its heroine from drawing-room expectations to a life of purpose, painting a vivid portrait of Gilded Age Connecticut along the way — its mansions and mills, its propriety and its hypocrisies.
Monagan, praised by the Historical Novel Society for one of the smoothest reads in the genre, writes with wit, warmth, and a historian’s eye for detail. This is a book for readers who love strong-minded heroines, richly imagined period settings, and stories of women who refused to stay in the lane marked out for them.
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