The Year is 1884, and Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be.

Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma continues to illuminate the curious realities of life in St. Crispian's.

Readers have compared Beth Brower's writing to Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, and L.M. Montgomery.