The Songbird

Elizabeth Ann Sheridan "neé Linley" is born to a family blessed with many children, wielding prosperous music talents. In the wake of his upstanding career, her father, Thomas Linley Sr, decides to train his family rigorously, beginning their careers in the talent of public singing and house performing. After performing some time, Elizabeth Ann, at thirteen, is stricken with a bout of fame. She has begun singing for the Majesties, as well as the nobles alike. Her voice and her likeness are well regarded as universally gentle, a modern beauty, and a habit for a quick and sweet wit. But fame comes at a price. After dealing with undesired happiness in her teens, she realises that she is not meant to earn the money she has worked for, and her father's ambitions clearly outweigh her own. She is presented with the very public love affairs in aristocratic times, out of three, one star-crossed lover, an elderly man, and a boy with a passion for no strife. After a swift rejection, she is outcast into the even more public light, like a modern day pop-star with tabloid, and is chronicled as a comedy in the treacherous public play, "The Maid of Bath". From then on, Elizabeth realises that there is a lot hiding in the surface.