Frances Hodgson Burnett 
That Lass O’ Lowrie’s 
1877

‘That Lass O’ Lowrie’s’ is a last-era romantic novel about a girl in the mining town wishing to find her way to happiness. The heroine pursues happiness through many intervening storylines. Her fate rests on courage, friendship, faith in herself, and will. There is a story of redemption too. Only after hard lessons are taken and conclusion-driven can we expect a Cinderella-style end of the story.