The Lady of The Aroostook is a fiction book written by William Dean Howells. The story begins in South Bradfield, Massachusetts with the main character, Lydia Blood, accompanied by her Aunt Maria and her Grandfather Deacon Latham on their family farm. Both of Lydia’s parents had died of illness when Lydia was young and she is now, at the age of nineteen, being sent to live with her other Aunt, on her father’s side of the family, Aunt Josephine, in Venice, Italy. Lydia was not only blessed with good looks and good smarts, but she also was blessed with a beautiful singing voice which she is going to cultivate in Venice and attempt to make a career out of.
