Frances Hart

This is the 2004 British series based on the novel by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell-- set in England. Tells the story of British class struggles and early labor movement in a northern mill town as seen through the eyes of a newly-arrived pastor's daughter from Southern England. Cotton mill owner, Thornton, becomes her love/hate interest.

Bravo. Wish this could be required watching for all seniors in high school.

Just went to this film, hoping for inspiration and humor in these dark times. But no, it's a sexist cat-fight movie, wasting the talents of 3 good women actors and an untold number baroque musicians. Here Anne is reduced to a mostly pathetic character while in real life she was actively involved in Whig vs Tory debates and attended more cabinet meetings than any of her predecessors right to the end, even firing her Lord Treasurer a month before she died, rightfully complaining of his misconduct. And she was very close to her still-living husband, George of Denmark when the events of this film were taking place-- but he is left out of the film entirely. Her split with Sarah Churchill was in great part over Sarah's great insensitivity when George died. Stubborn, yes, and with views based more on her religious upbringing than the education she'd been deprived of as a girl, she nevertheless ruled Britain to the end. The union of England with Scotland, which she fervently supported, was achieved during her reign, as was the promotion of British art and architecture.