Synopsis From Your Heart: The Shilling Can is a story that opens in the Clerkenwell District, London, 1860. It chronicles 20 year-old, Penelope Berry, alias, Pennie, who lives in the poorest district of London. She attends the Field Lane Ragged School. Her desire is to become a schoolteacher. Industrious, Pennie studies, passes the exam, earning her certificate as Novice Teacher. Later, a mysterious man at the Smithfield Market makes her an offer that she can hardly refuse - to immigrate to America. Pennie encounters many suitors, but only one of them is her heartthrob's desire. Shipwrecked, the Royal Navy rescues all but the man she loves.
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