Child labour, starvation wages, the industrial revolution, rebellion, risings, and riots! A family saga.
1812, Evan's family slave in a slate quarry in Wales, while Elen's are struggling to make a living spinning and weaving in rural Yorkshire. Desperation leads both families to the woollen mills of the industrial heartland of northern England, where Evan and Elen meet and fall in love. Starvation forces them to rise against the cruel mill owners, and the machines that are taking their jobs.
1831. Little has changed, and Evan's ministry in Merthyr Tydfil is a den of poverty, 'vice, and ungodliness'. When petitions to parliament and the king fail, desperate workers rebel against the iron masters with tragic consequences.
1839. Evan, Elen and their family are moved to a ministry in Carmarthenshire. Exorbitant tolls on the roads of rural Wales are crippling farmers, and once again Evan is drawn into the riots that follow.
Genre: Historical
1812, Evan's family slave in a slate quarry in Wales, while Elen's are struggling to make a living spinning and weaving in rural Yorkshire. Desperation leads both families to the woollen mills of the industrial heartland of northern England, where Evan and Elen meet and fall in love. Starvation forces them to rise against the cruel mill owners, and the machines that are taking their jobs.
1831. Little has changed, and Evan's ministry in Merthyr Tydfil is a den of poverty, 'vice, and ungodliness'. When petitions to parliament and the king fail, desperate workers rebel against the iron masters with tragic consequences.
1839. Evan, Elen and their family are moved to a ministry in Carmarthenshire. Exorbitant tolls on the roads of rural Wales are crippling farmers, and once again Evan is drawn into the riots that follow.
Genre: Historical
Used availability for Rebecca Bryn's Wales Rising Box Set