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Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton
 
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Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton
 
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Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton
Better placed than Dickens or Disraeli to view industrial distress, Mrs Gaskell worked actively to relieve it in expanding 1840s Manchester. But she also wrote imaginatively about the miserable base of the Victorian social pyramid. She writes without bigotry and without hatred. Her artist’s sensitivity is not just to economic and social facts. She diagnoses men’s tragic ignorance of each other as the root of the evil. ‘Mary Barton’ is social history as it should be understood, on the pulses of the people who made it. ‘Poor Mr Gaskell,’ said the mill owners when the book came out. He did not feel in the least poor! His own life pioneered better education for working people. What a pair!
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