Margaret comes to Milton

Margaret and her family have travelled from lovely Helston, in southern England to the cold and industrial northern town of Milton. She goes with her father to help secure an apartment that will do for their small family and one servant. Even if they are in reduced circumstances the Hales are very concerned about their class. Milton is a place where classes have almost been done away with. Instead of upper, middle or lowers class you are Master or Hand. Hard work gets you ahead, laziness could buy you death. It is a hard world for Margaret to enter, but she tries her best.

Here she is dressed in an old silk visiting gown with buttons down the bodice, a straw bonnet, and a large india shawl. 
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