Raised in Ireland, the sweet-tempered Louisa (Anne-Marie Duff) finds a match in Thomas Conolly, a dim bulb who also happens to be the country’s richest man. This presumed slighting once more engenders hurt feelings. Per their wishes, the younger Lennoxes are to be raised by Emily and Lord Kildare, not Caroline and Mr. But the harmony is short lived, as both Lord and Lady Richmond expire shortly thereafter. Ultimately, Emily, now living in Ireland, brokers a peace between Caroline and their parents. She elopes and is banished from the household - an especially severe blow to her sister Emily (Geraldine Somerville), who, in the voice of Sian Phillips, narrates the entire series.Įmily is less impulsive than Caroline and employs a different strategy to land Lord Kildare, a wealthy Irishman toward whom her parents are ambivalent. But Caroline is an independent girl, and when she takes a liking to Henry Fox (Alun Armstrong), a politically ambitious untitled older man of no great fortune, her parents forbid the match. The story opens in 1743 London, with Caroline (Serena Gordon), the eldest Lennox daughter, still unmarried and her ostensibly indulgent parents, Lord and Lady Richmond (Julian Fellowes and Diane Fletcher) desperate to see her wed. The result is a panoramic view of mid- to late-18th century upper-crust life, with an emphasis on such domestic concerns as marriage, affairs of the heart, spoiled children, illness and death.
Like any complex story, this one has its longueurs, but relief, in the form of new subplots, comes nearly as soon as boredom sets in.
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