Hobson's Choice

Henry Hobson runs a successful boot-maker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to run the lives of his three headstrong d... Read allHenry Hobson runs a successful boot-maker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to run the lives of his three headstrong daughters. When he decrees 'no marriages' to avoid the expensive matter of his daughters' d... Read allHenry Hobson runs a successful boot-maker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to run the lives of his three headstrong daughters. When he decrees 'no marriages' to avoid the expensive matter of his daughters' dowries; money, land, property that goes with the bride to protect her financially as she e... Read all