English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1413 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton and North and South
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The idea
Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, of eighteen forty-eight, a tale of Manchester life, deals with working-class hardship. North and South, serialized by Dickens and published in eighteen fifty-five, sets Margaret Hale from the south against the northern mill town of Milton. She also wrote a Life of Charlotte Brontë.
In practice
Manchester, mills, workers.
Where people slip
Gaskell is a condition-of-England novelist.
Your place on the trail
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