Based on the true story of Teena Rochfort-Smith, a 19th-century literary scholar who battled institutional and personal sexism and harassment while pioneering a prescient new approach to Shakespearean scholarship, only to die tragically young before she could complete her work. Also appearing are Frederick Furnivall, Teena's mentor and predator, a major figure in 19th-century literary London and one of the founders of the Oxford English Dictionary, and the young Kenneth Grahame, who would go on to write The Wind in the Willows.

This is an early draft of the play, where Teena's story is somewhat overwhelmed by Furnivall's personality, in an unconscious parallel to the way that the actual Furnivall overwhelmed and ultimately co-opted Teena Smith in real life. The play is currently being rewritten to bring Teena back into prominence, and to explore the darker side of their relationship.