[3] The events in Jeremy Poldark are the basis for Season 2, Episodes 1-4 in the television series adaptation launched in 2015 produced by the BBC.

Dwight Enys meets and falls in love with the lively heiress Caroline Penvenen, whose station in life is much above his.

These are the main developments: His daughter was dead, his cousin had betrayed him, his much-labored-over smelting scheme was in ashes, he faced charges in the criminal court for which he might well be sentenced to death or life transportation, and if by some chance he survived that, it would be only a matter of months before bankruptcy and imprisonment followed.

[3] "Just in St. Ann's I am, about me ordinary, proper, reasonable, human, respectable, decent, fair an' honest business when first I seen the two of 'em eyeing me as if I was a green goose ready for the Christmas pot.

[5] Scholar Ellen Moody argues that "Winston Graham's historical fiction brings into focus areas and perspectives on experience essential to understanding the nature of civil liberty."