Daniela Denby-Ashe

After her father's death, Margaret leaves Milton to live with her aunt in London. Thornton learns that Frederick is Margaret's brother. With the money that she inherited from Mr. Bell, her godfather, she decides to help Mr. Thornton's mill from closing.

Deeply hurt at the refusal of his marriage proposal, Thornton and Margaret's relationship becomes more tense and difficult. Just in time, Frederick comes home to visit his dying mother. Thornton mistakes him for Margaret's lover. As Margaret realizes that she might have been mistaking in her harsh and hasty criticism of Thornton, she has to sadly observe his opinion of her altering.

Maria Hale's health ceases and her daughter Margaret decides to contact her brother Frederick - who had to leave England years earlier due to a wrongful court decision. The mill workers in Milton go on strike. In order to get his orders done in time, Thornton hires Irish workers. The angry strikers hear of this and in an attempt to threaten Thornton they hurt Margaret.

Margaret Hale and her parents move to Milton in the north of England where Mr. Hale starts working as a private tutor. Margaret and her mother find it difficult to adapt to the north. While Margaret tries to deal with her new home and thereby befriends Bessy Higgins and her father Nicholas, poor local mill workers, she becomes aware of the social inequalities. Also available on Netflix

Margaret takes her concern for the workers straight to mill owner John Thornton. As they grow closer, she persuades John to make some changes. Back at the Hale house, a sudden decline in Maria's condition coincides with the arrival of an unexpected visitor with a dark past.

As news of a possible strike descends like a fog over the town of Milton, Margaret finds herself increasingly sympathetic to the struggles of the local mill workers. Meanwhile, the ailing Mrs. Hale longs to see her son Frederick, but he's hiding in Spain in the wake of a mutiny at sea.