ABANDONED. Probably by Catherine Cookson or at least her style

[Grisette]

Hello! I read this back in high school but for the life of me I cannot remember or find (despite Google) its title.

Plot: Fiction. England, probably Victorian or Edwardian times. It starts with a little girl who is poor and probably in an orphanage but I am not sure. She then discovers that she has a rich father - she is somewhat young, maybe 8. Her father is a great miser and educates her to be a miser as well. For example, he doesn't allow her to have more than 1 dress. Once she grows up, she inherits her father's fortune but also his obsession with not spending money. I seem to remember that she wore only grey or black dresses; her immediate family despised her; this miser tendency was based on a trauma that her father always had of not having enough money...

I really seem to remember that it was written by Catherine Cookson but then I am probably mistaken as I searched in her whole bibliography to no avail - even the from the plot outline it really seems to be one of her titles...

Thanks for any help!

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Grisette, are you still looking for this book?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

We haven't heard from Grisette since 2010. Moving to Abandoned.