On the Edge of a Moor

Up on a moor is a small cottage outside a small town. Rhoda, given a pittance of an inheritance, tells her brothers that instead of becoming their spinster sister and having little to do of use in the world. She moves to it with her faithful servant and commences to get to know her neighbors—and is shocked by the extreme spiritual apathy in the little town. Absentee clergymen only make it worse, and what mission work she undertakes must be done entirely without help.

I found it a very unique picture of Victorian era life and inspiring, as the story of a woman who refuses to sit comfortably at home when she hears God's call to minister to “the least of these.”