The Paper Cap

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Thomas Hill, John Watson Gordon and Horace Vernet. A West Riding weaving village in the years of the Reform Bill, when the power loom is coming and the hand-weavers' living is going with it, and a squire who owns most of the village and has to decide which side he is on. Barr, a Lancashire-born minister's daughter, knew these Methodist communiti...