Born the youngest of four daughters and one son in a modest vicar's family, Miss Catherine Edwina Lyndon faces a life of hand-me-downs and broken dreams. Her parents spend every shilling on finding husbands for her older sisters, leaving her overlooked and resigned to a future without marriage or family. Despite a passion for education reform, she is denied entry to a leading university and escapes to Northampton as a companion to an aristocratic...