A Woman's Triumph
Beanie and Effie Deans are the two daughters of old David Deans, a thrifty Scotchman and strict church member, living near Edinburgh
Beanie and Effie Deans are the two daughters of old David Deans, a thrifty Scotchman and strict church member, living near Edinburgh
Laura Sawyer
Jeanie Deans
Betty Harte
Effie Deans
George Moss
David Deans
Hal Clarendon
Georgie Robertson
Wellington A. Playter
Reuben Butler
Emily Calloway
Madge Wildfire
Helen Aubrey
Dame Murdockson
Beanie and Effie Deans are the two daughters of old David Deans, a thrifty Scotchman and strict church member, living near Edinburgh
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.
Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family. The only person that she should be able to rely on is Hardin, who is furious when he discovers the massive secret that she's been keeping. Before Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes because of revelations about her family.
A naive California teen plans to remain above the fray at his Nebraskan family reunion, but a strange encounter places him at the center of a long-buried family secret.
Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.