Central protagonist who urges her husband to abolish child labor in his mills. After discovering an injured girl is her presumed-dead daughter and learning her ex-husband is alive, she leaves her marriage to raise her child, eventually reconciling with her husband after his reform.
Maris is the biological mother of the young mill worker.
Maris and Dwight are married, but their views on labor reform create tension.
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