Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups and downs are included. (Summary by Linda Andrus)
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Episodes
00 - Preface
Episode 0 · 1:01
01 - Chapter I -- The twenty-fourth day of November 1690
Episode 1 · 17:16
02 - Chapter II -- In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspring
Episode 2 · 22:36
03 - Chapter III -- Wherein Sir Jeoffry's boon companions drink a toast
Episode 3 · 19:34
04 - Chapter IV -- Lord Twemlow's chaplain visits his patron's kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda shines on her birthday night
Episode 4 · 26:44
05 - Chapter V -- 'Not I,' said she. 'There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out.'
Episode 5 · 22:52
06 - ChapterVI -- Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniature
Episode 6 · 26:01
07 - Chapter VII -- 'Twas the face of Sir John Oxon the moon shone upon
Episode 7 · 20:50
08 - Chapter VIII -- Two meet in the deserted rose garden, and the old Earl of Dunstanwolde is made a happy man
Episode 8 · 34:06
09 -Chapter IX -- 'I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul -- myself'
Episode 9 · 15:25
10 - Chapter X -- 'Yes -- I have marked him'
Episode 10 · 18:31
11 - Chapter XI -- Wherein a noble life comes to an end
Episode 11 · 32:18
12 - Chapter XII -- Which treats of the obsequies of my Lord of Dunstanwolde, of his lady's widowhood, and of her return to town
Episode 12 · 15:41
13 - Chapter XIII -- Wherein a deadly war begins
Episode 13 · 29:00
14 - Chapter XIV -- Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil, and relates the returning of his Grace of Osmonde from France
Episode 14 · 33:47
15 - Chapter XV -- In which Sir John Oxon finds again a trophy he had lost
Episode 15 · 28:03
16 - Chapter XVI -- Dealing with that which was done in the Panelled Parlour
Episode 16 · 30:23
17 - Chapter XVII -- Wherein his Grace of Osmonde's courier arrives from France
Episode 17 · 29:59
18 - Chapter XVIII -- My Lady Dunstanwolde sits late alone and writes
Episode 18 · 12:49
19 - Chapter XIX -- A piteous story is told, and the old cellars walled in
Episode 19 · 27:29
20 - Chapter XX -- A noble marriage
Episode 20 · 18:48
21 - Chapter XXI -- An heir is born
Episode 21 · 27:46
22 - Chapter XXII -- Mother Anne
Episode 22 · 11:37
23 - Chapter XXIII -- 'In One who will do justice, and demands that it shall be done to each thing He has made, by each who bears His image'
Episode 23 · 20:47
24 - Chapter XXIV -- The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed