The Northern Correspondent is the fourth

volume in Jean Stubbs popular saga of the

Howarth family, and, like its predecessors,

it is very much a novel in its own right.

Spanning the years of the Industrial Revo-

lution to the triumphant Great Exhibition

of 1851, it traces the story of a great news-

paper and its owner against the back-

ground of the Victorian age in England.

Ambrose Longe, elegant, eccentric, im-

poverished, and of a radical persuasion,

is the editor of The Clarion. His uncle,

William Howarth, the ironmaster, finances

The Lancashire Herald, which reflects the

values of the prosperous establishment.

Thus the lines are drawn between the ideals

of Longe and the business interests of

Howarth and the Lancashire town of

Millbridge becomes the battleground for

the two rival papers.

But The Northern Correspondent is also

a love story. Unexpectedly, Millbridge finds

a stranger in its midst: Naomi Blum, exotic, sophisticated, and rich. And soon, the for-

tunes of both The Clarion and its editor

take a turn for the better.

Many of Stubbs best-loved characters

reappear in The Northern Correspondent,

joined by such new friends as Naomi and

the growing brood of lovable Howarth

grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In

this delightful novel, Jean Stubbs once

again paints a heartwarming picture of the

sorrows and joys, tragedies and triumphs of

the new industrial age.

JEAN STUBBS was born in the Lancashire

described in the novels of the Howarth fam-

ily saga. She now lives in a two-hundred-

year-old Cornwall cottage with her husband.