SYNOPSIS:

Josiah Wedgwood’s life becomes overly complicated when he falls in love with the daughter of the local Earl in Burslem, England in the middle of the 18th Century. Because Josiah is an indigent potter with a physical malady, the Earl forbids his smitten daughter, Sarah, from seeing Josiah. The Earl eventually relents but only allows Sarah to see Josiah in the privacy of his home for one hour per month until he raises her dowry of ten thousand pounds, the modern equivalent of ten million dollars today. Undaunted, Josiah commits to becoming “the wealthiest potter the world has ever known.” Confined by the rules of the arrangement, Sarah and Josiah see each other for one hour per month in the Earl’s parlor for over ten years! And, yet, driven by his love for Sarah during that time – Josiah Wedgwood not only raises the dowry, he becomes the wealthiest man in the world, a leader in the British abolitionist movement, a great friend of Benjamin Franklin, the builder of one of the first canal systems and industrial plants in the modern world, the “Royal Potter of England” and a friend to royalty, and the founder of the Wedgwood Pottery empire still in existence today. Not only does Sarah and Josiah’s love spark some interesting plot twists, it leads to the birth of their famous grandson – evolutionist Charles Darwin. Inspired by the true story of Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood, Wedgwood, covers the years of their courtship and the struggles they both overcome in winning the hand of the one that they love.