A seventeen-year-old girl, corseted, bored, bursting with constrained energy, sits at a dining room table amid the clink of teacups and the sounds of male conversation. The year is 1856. The girl is Sarah Goff, Lady Sarah Goff, as she is constantly reminded by her uncle Robert, who has raised her. Robert is not happy… Continue reading What I Learned from a 19th-Century Traveling Trader