Thorne: Doctor

"Its green pastures, its waving wheat, its deep and shady and—let us add—dirty lanes, its paths and stiles, its tawny-coloured, well-built rural churches... has made it to its own inhabitants a favoured land of Goshen." Where to Watch or Listen Doctor Thorne (TV Mini Series 2016)

: The tension between marrying for love versus marrying for money and status. Doctor Thorne

Set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, the story follows the quiet, principled and his niece, Mary Thorne . Mary is beautiful but penniless and of "mysterious" parentage. She is in love with Frank Gresham , the heir to a local estate. However, the Gresham family is deeply in debt, and Frank’s snobbish mother, Lady Arabella, is determined that he must marry an heiress—specifically the wealthy Miss Dunstable—to save the family fortune. Key Themes "Its green pastures, its waving wheat, its deep