This covers the post-civil war time when Virginia and her family move to New York. Her father tries to find work as a violinist, but such jobs are hard to come buy in the city, so he ends up giving lessons at their home.
Virginia herself likes plays, and gets to see one with Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth's brother. She ends up writing him and also manages to get a job working backstage, helping actresses with their costume changes.
It's a light story, not a major historical work, but it's still interesting to see how people tried to get by after the war was over.
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