Title: Verity
Description: Verity Barforth, heiress to a wool mill in Yorkshire in the early 19th century and is pressured to wed her cousin Joel Barforth.  But Verity is in love with a reformer who is the opposite of everything her husband stands for  and Verity's eyes are opened to the treatment of the lower classes during the Industrial Revolution, and particularly the plight of women who are  dependent on men for economic opportunities.
Subjects: Fiction, general
Places: Yorkshire
Time periods: Victorian Enagalnd, Industrial Revolution