May Wedderburn is the seventeen year old daughter of the local pastor who wishes to escape from the unwanted attentions of Sir Peter Le Marchant. She befriends a kindly neighbor, Miss Hallam, who presents her an offer of a lifetime. Become Miss Hallam’s companion, traveling with her to Germany and there receive musical training for her voice. They travel to Elberthal, a town in a country far from May’s English home. May, however, loses herself at the train station in Köln. There she meets a stranger who helps her out of her difficulties, seeing as she knows no German. The memories that she makes that day will affect her future time in Germany.
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Jessie Fothergill (1851-1891) was a British novelist. Fothergill was bought up at a farmstead called Carr End which had been in her father’s family since the 17th century. She became popular with the publication of her novel The First Violin, a story of an English girl who rejects the attentions of the rich farmer for the strange attractions of a German. Fothergill is recognized today because her novels were agnostic about religion.
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