My Lady Ludlow
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Lady Ludlow is the absolute mistress of the Hanbury Court and a determined opponent of anything that can disrupt the class system in which she was born. He will have no literate servants and will insist that the lower echelons have no rights, only duties. But the winds of change are blowing in the village of Hanberi. Deputy Mr. Gray wants to set up a Sunday school for religious reasons; Mr. Horner wants to educate citizens for economic reasons. But Lady Ludlow is not as harsh as you think.
