"Close to her fifteenth birthday, Jinnie Howlett, a reluctant inmate of a northern workhouse, was offered a position as a maid-of-all-work by the Shalemans at Tollet's Ridge farm, a bleakly isolated farm near the Cumbrian border. Before long, however, she was to discover she had exchanged one kind of drudgery for another, for the Shalemans-Rose, invalid wife of Pug and mother of Bruce and Hal-demanded much of her."
"Een 16-jarig weesmeisje doet rond 1870 de huishouding van een arme schapenboer, diens zieke vrouw en twee volwassen zonen."
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