The Story of Bessie Costrell

"The Story of Bessie Costrell" by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Mrs Humphry Ward worked to improve education for the poor and became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. In this book, she showcases the condition of women in her version of British society by telling the story of Bessie Costrell, the niece of a laborer. When his sister-in-law, Eliza, dies, and the town seems like it couldn't care less, it is to his niece he turns.