That Lass o' Lowrie's (Annotated)

Frances Hodgson Burnett's debut novel, That Lass o' Lowrie's, is a vigorous work of Victorian industrial fiction set among the coal pits of Lancashire. Centered on Joan Lowrie, a miner's daughter of formidable strength and moral intelligence, the novel combines melodramatic romance with social realism, rendering dialect, laboring-class customs, domestic violence, and class division with unusual im...