Miranda starts out as everything you would expect from a titled young lady from London. And I think her personal transformation is the best part of this story. Being sent to the country and finding out that life isn't just new dresses and social events really opens her eyes to the world. Her time at the orphange was eye-opening for her.
Fox was a mixed bag for me. And I feel like a lot of the bad things happening in the area (not his doing) would have been more prevalent or reported since so many were impacted. But maybe I'm wrong and don't quite grasp the politics of the time fully.