Pauper's Child

The Sanford family are dogged by misfortune. Callista Sanford''s father was well educated but ended up working in a steel foundry, before mysteriously taking his own life. Callista is left struggling to support herself and her ailing mother. Regular employment eludes her, and her pride will not let her accept charity.

Instead she is reluctantly betrothed to the boorish rent collector, Oswin Slade,...