Margaret's mother is predictably whiny about the move: And Margaret's mom, like many Victorian women, gets conveniently when things are too difficult for her, and goes to bed, leaving everything to her maid Dixon, and Margaret. Indeed, Margaret's father and mother leave all of the logistics of closing up the parsonage, move the household effects and themselves to Milton, as if she's the parent. When Margaret's father tells her about his plans to leave the church, he leaves Margaret to tell his wife about it, being too cowardly to take control of this. She's a whiny, self-involved person who takes very little responsibility for her role in the family and her circumstances in life. Margaret loves her mother, but I had a hard time liking this character. In the beginning of the book, Margaret's father has a consciousness pang, where he realizes he can't in all good faith continue being a priest in the Church of England, so he resigns his living in the parsonage, and they move to a northern manufacturing town called Milton, where he does Private tutoring, helped out by his connection to Mr Bell, a Fellow in Oxford College, whom Margaret's father had known as a fellow student. Her mother, a former great beauty, was from a rich family, but she fell in love with her husband, a priest in the Church of England, and married him, much to her family's distress. Margaret and her parents live in the south of England.
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