ASIN: B00CCPAMUY
Publisher: Joan Taylor
Pages: 224
Liz Baker finds a journal in the attic of her recently deceased father's house. Written in 1819-1820 by an ancestor, Lady Elizabeth Gresham, Liz discovers an empathy with her antecedent as she discovers similarities between their personalities and lives. Elizabeth is married to Lord Edward Gresham; an imperious bully who treats his employees with cruel disdain. Due to her developing relationship with her husband's factory manager, Joseph Hartley, she discovers first hand just how appalling the working and housing conditions at the time are. She is dismayed and embarrassed to discover this greatly benefits Edward financially and means his employees starve in hovels and work long and gruelling hours in appalling conditions so she and Edward live in extreme comfort and beautiful surroundings. Elizabeth has a genuine, if naïve, concern for the underdog and becomes more and more involved ...
