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Gaskell affectionately portrays a small English town dominated by unmarried women, routines, gossip, friendship, class customs, and quiet disruptions of social order
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Gaskell affectionately portrays a small English town dominated by unmarried women, routines, gossip, friendship, class customs, and quiet disruptions of social order
Elizabeth Gaskell depicts industrial Manchester through a working-class family facing poverty, labor conflict, grief, illness, and the widening divide between workers and employers
A conflict between industrial Manchester and rural southern England becomes a romance and a study of labor, class, gender and social negotiation
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