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The Deverell woman
Maura Deverell has no wish to obey her cruel landlord's conditions for staying - to marry Liam Riordan. She will not be traded like an animal and cannot understand why the rich, powerful Riordans want a humble peasant girl in their family. Then Liam's brother rapes her, gloating that soon Maura will be at his complete mercy. Though weakened by consumption, Maura's mother won't let this vicious act go unavenged. She curses the Riordans and makes her daughter promise to leave Ireland for good. Maura's exile to the industrial poverty of Birmingham is fraught with dangers, and even as she starts to settle she can't help but remember her homeland and what might have been.
- "Maura Deverell has no wish to obey her cruel landlord's conditions for staying - to marry Liam Riordan. She will not be traded like an animal and cannot understand why the rich, powerful Riordans want a humble peasant girl in their family. Then Liam's brother rapes her, gloating that soon Maura will be at his complete mercy. Though weakened by consumption, Maura's mother won't let this vicious act go unavenged. She curses the Riordans and makes her daughter promise to leave Ireland for good. Maura's exile to the industrial poverty of Birmingham is fraught with dangers, and even as she starts to settle she can't help but remember her homeland and what might have been."@en
- "Maura Deverell has no wish to obey her cruel landlord's conditions for staying - to marry Liam Riordan, She will not be traded like an animal and cannot understand why the rich, powerful Riordans want a humble peasant girl in their family. Then Liam's brother rapes her, gloating that soon Maura will be at his complete mercy. Though weakened by consumption, Maura's mother won't let this vicious act go unavenged. She curses the Riordans and makes her daughter promise to leave Ireland for good. Maura's exile to the industrial poverty of Birmingham is fraught with dangers, and even as she starts to settle she can't help but remember her homeland and what might have been ..."
- "A humble peasant girl is offered marriage to the landlord's crippled relative in return for the privilege of allowing her mother to stay in her home. When she is brutally raped by the brother of the future husband, her mother curses the family and makes her promise to leave Ireland. She goes to live in the industrial poverty of Birmingham where she still longs for the land of her birth."
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- "The Deverell woman"@en
- "The Deverell woman"