Salem Street Author:Anna Jacobs Salem Street is just a step above the worst slums of Bilsden, England. Annie Gibson is born in 1820 on Salem Street to a pair of millworkers, ecstatic at the birth of their daughter and their move up in the world. Annie is eventually banished from her home by a jealous stepmother, and she finds work in a doctor's household, where she learns ... more »of the world beyond Salem Street. When her childhood sweetheart asks her to marry him, all her dreams come true, but suddenly abandoned and pregnant by rape, her life is turned upside-down.« less