01658cam a2200301 4500 1111914943 TxAuBib 20240101120000.0 190812s2019||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781432867539 1432867539 SKYRV rda TxAuBib Miller, Judith, 1944- A perfect silhouette [large print] / Judith Miller. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2019] ©2019. 475 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. 1850. Mellicent "Mellie" Blanchard takes a job at a mill in Manchester, New Hampshire, to help support her family. In search of additional earning opportunities, she approaches a daguerreotype shop owner with the proposal that he hire her to make paper cuttings or silhouette portraits for those who can't afford an expensive daguerreotype. When a particularly charming customer asks to escort her home, the seeds of romance begin to blossom. All the pieces of her new life seem to have fallen perfectly into place, but when her new venture brings her an unexpected opportunity, she is confronted with the truth that all is not as it seems. -- adapted from back cover. 20240101. Women artisans United States Fiction. Silhouettes Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Manchester (N.H) Social life and customs 19th century Fiction. Christian fiction. Romance fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Religious fiction.