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http://booksbywomen.org/wp-content/uploads/The-White-Camellia-visual4-1-1-e1474881863168.jpg158248Like Jane Austen with Emma, I set out for one of my heroines of The White Camellia to be decidedly unsympathetic. She had to be. You see, because while the younger heroine, Bea, has obstacles to overcome, when her family is ruined, and their beautiful Cornish home of Tressillion House lost, the older heroine, Sybil, […]