After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
Keywords:
Jealousy
England
Victorian england
Marriage of convenience
Tragedy
Murder
Extramarital affair
Blackface
Marquis
Movie tag line: "The most daring novel of the century lives on the screen"
Character: Hesther Shaw Barbary
Character: Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
Character: Lord Rohan
Character: Swinton Rokeby / Peter Rokeby
Character: Toby