A workhouse daughter. A ratcatcher's girl. A young widow with a failing factory and a will of iron. The forgotten, the ragged, the cast-down — and the unbreakable hope that carries them through. I'm Hope Joy Dawson, and I write gritty Victorian romance sagas about the brave girls and women who survive hardship, heartbreak, and a world being remade around them. Because the Victorians were so much like us: their world was changing fast, fortunes were made and lost, hearts were broken and mended — and through it all, ordinary women stayed strong and kept believing in a better future. My Victorian England runs the full sweep, from the ragged slums and the workhouse to the grand house and the governess's stair, and I have a tender love for a Victorian Christmas saga, when hope shines brightest against the dark. These are stories of courage, heartbreak, and the strength of the human spirit — always clean and wholesome, always ending in the light. If you love a sweeping saga of hope against the odds, pull your chair close to the fire. Inside you'll find ragged orphans and slum girls, workhouse survivors, young widows, governesses, rags-to-riches reversals, found family, and heartrending Victorian Christmas sagas.