The Complete Tildy Seymour Sagas

Tildy #1-8

by Sara Fraser

Eight captivating and emotional historical sagas. Over 2300 pages. A decade of love and loss in Victorian England.

Escape into the world of Tildy Seymour — a fierce, working-class woman determined to survive as she finds herself pregnant and alone.

MEET TILDY
Orphan Matilda “Tildy” Seymour already knows that the world is no friend to a poor girl without family. Yet she carries herself with pride and dignity in her position as a maid to a clergyman and his wife.

When the cruel Tom Crawford takes advantage of Tildy, she is forced to marry the very man who ruined her. Trapped with an abusive husband, she finds the courage to escape and start a new life as a nurse in a workhouse infirmary. But as the Industrial Revolution transforms England, Tildy finds her life as precarious as before.

But Tildy knows she will do anything to make sure she — and her child — survive.

2302 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 24, 2025

About the author

Sara Fraser is a pseudonym for Roy Clews, a one-time Marine Commando and Foreign Legionnaire who has traveled and worked all over the world.

Reviews

[Susan Hylton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tildy, these 8 books were really one engrossing story, set in the 1820’s in a small area of Great Britain. Unlike Jane Austin’s characters, the heroine wasn’t poor landed gentry or impoverished nobility, she was horribly poor. And the people she lived in and around and worked with were also so very poor. Living in the nail making and needle making area of Redditch, she made her way, for herself and her child, and she was smart, ignorant but smart enough to learn. She made nails, she nursed the sick, she lived in the poor house, she worked in the needle factories, she was part of the work Gangs that farmers hired to do rough work. And at every turn, she stood up for herself and her child. Her betters, the mill owners, the farm owners, the doctors, the sheriff and the parson, disliked this tendency so speak her mind, but in the end, after 13 years, they respected her more than about anyone. I really enjoyed this series of books, and found it quite amazing that the author wrote under a pen name and was actually a man. He described a woman’s thinking so well. But he described other things very well too. Like needle making, sheep shearing, nail making, those things were part of the story, but they also felt like watching history, reading about something you had never seen but actually understood when you were finished.

[Tracy · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fab 8 book series a definite must read
About Tildy Crawford and the loves hardship and abuse she suffered most of her life until she found happiness for her and her son who was born through her being raped by the man she had no choice in marrying
Then to find happiness for it to be taken away from her with cholera

[margaret a adamsonpenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyed all 8 books. The author had obviously done a lot of research into the industries and living experiences of the time. Bit disappointed with the ending hoping for a happy ending for all. Would love to read more.