A Mad, Wicked Folly Audiobook (Free)

Welcome to the globe of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and homes are overwhelmingly opulent, public course means everything, and females are taught to become nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artist-a extremely difficult dream for a woman.

After Vicky poses nude on her behalf illicit art class, she actually is expelled from her People from france finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off to the rich Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky offers other things on her behalf brain: her clandestine application to the Royal College of Artwork; her participation in the suffragette motion; and her growing appeal to a working-class son who may be her muse-or may be the love of her existence. As the globe of debutante balls, corsets, and high culture responsibilities closes in around her, Vicky must figure out: just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dreams?