Marcella, Mrs. Humphry Ward ; with a new introduction by Tamie Watters.

Marcella is a late nineteenth-century woman. She is deeply interested in improving the lot of the poor, although she herself is one of the landed gentry. It is a time when people know change is coming, and there is tension in the air. Marcella is loved by Lord Maxwell's son who will have that title himself one day. She finds it hard to reconcile his beliefs with her own.