Frances Hodgson Burnett 
One Day At Arle 

One Day at Arle by Frances Hodgson Burnett is about a woman’s cozy life on a lovely day in a small, coastal, fishing town. Excerpt: ‘One day at Arle—a tiny scattered fishing hamlet on the northwestern English coast—there stood at the door of one of the cottages near the shore a woman leaning against the lintel-post and looking out: a woman who would have been apt to attract a stranger’s eye, too—a woman young and handsome. This was what a first glance would have taken in; a second would have been apt to teach more and leave a less pleasant impression. She was young enough to have been girlish, but she was not girlish in the least. Her tall, lithe, well-knit figure was braced against the door post with a tense sort of strength…’