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Following the premature death of her father and her mother’s second marriage to an abusive drunkard, young Esther Waters has to leave school and is sent into service. Seduced by a fellow servant and promptly abandoned for another girl, Esther loses her position once her employers discover she is pregnant. Yet despite bitter poverty and a society hostile to women like her, Esther relentlessly fights to secure a future for her son and herself. Moore’s unflinching, sympathetic portrayal of his heroine garnered praise from Prime Minister Gladstone, thus escaping censorship despite its controversial topic and gaining a place in the circulating libraries, the very bastions of Victorian conformity.
Walter Scott 1894
Translated into: Bulgarian
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