Master of Men

Victorian Socialist Romance. Enoch Strone is a book-loving rustic loner who lives in a remote hand-built cabin.

• He works as a mechanical engineer in the industrial town of Gascester.

One evening he meets a poor factory girl, Milly, who has been abandoned by her friends during a walk in the woods. On the same day he is accosted by the Reverand Martinghoe who introduces Strone to his beautiful, widowed, wealthy sister Lady Malingcourt.

• Strone is bewitched by her lovely singing and the seductive manners of the jaded upper class widow.