Tragic tale of Margaret Hope and starving family
A broken marriage, secret jealousy, and ruin drive Margaret Hope from Arthur Hope's home. She moves to a penniless village with her two children, endures extreme poverty and a merciless landlord, and after a final winter, dies protecting her hungry children as a passerby rescues them from the cold.
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