De onstuitbare Vera overwint de vooroordelen van haar familie en woonplaats om een beurs te overmeesteren voor de Universiteit van Oxford. Ze wordt verliefd op Roland Leighton, de briljante vriend van haar broer, wanneer ze beiden naar de universiteit gaan om hun literaire dromen na te streven. Maar de Eerste Wereldoorlog dreigt uit te breken en de jongens vertrekken naar het front.
Het verhaal over de opkomst en val van een jonge excentrieke schrijfster, Angel Deverell, vroeg in de twintigste eeuw. Ze bezat een groot gevoel voor verbeelding en weigerde de wereld om haar heen te accepteren zoals deze was. In plaats daarvan creeërde zij haar eigen realiteit.
Edwardian Farm is an historical documentary TV series in twelve parts, first shown on BBC Two from November 2010 to January 2011. It depicts a group of historians trying to run a farm like it was done during the Edwardian era. It was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television and filmed at Morwellham Quay, an historic quay in Devon. The farming team was historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn. The series was devised and produced by David Upshal and directed by Stuart Elliott. The series is a development from two previous series Victorian Farm and Victorian Pharmacy which were among BBC Two's biggest hits of 2009 and 2010, garnering audiences of up to 3.8 million per episode. The series was followed by Wartime Farm in September 2012, featuring the same team but this time in Hampshire on Manor Farm, living a full calendar year as wartime farmers. An associated book by Goodman, Langlands, and Ginn, also titled Edwardian Farm, was published in 2010 by BBC Books. The series was also published on DVD, available in various regional formats.
Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds work as housekeeper for farmer, Larry Birch. Another tragedy occurs, and when Nick Stuart inherits the farm owned by Birch's wife, Nick gives Emily a new future.
An extraordinary variety of writers, who often suffered terrible adversity throughout their lives, created wonderful places full of happiness in which children lived far from the sorrows of adult life.
