Hobson’s Choice
Harold Brighouse

Hobson’s Choice
A comedy based around the warfare. Henry Hobson runs a successful bootmaker's shop in
nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries
forcefully to rule the lives of his three unruly daughters. When he decrees 'no marriages' to
avoid the expensive matter of settlements, eldest daughter Maggie rebels and sets her sights
on Will Mossop, Hobson's star bootmaker. Maggie and Will leave to start up in competition,
and she then turns her mind to helping her sisters marry their chosen partners