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A novelist, she
married a Unitarian minister at Manchester and in 1848 published anonymously her
first book, Mary Barton, in which the life and feelings of the
manufacturing working classes are depicted with much power and sympathy. Other
novels followed, Lizzie Leigh (1855), Mr. Harrison’s Confessions
(1865), Ruth (1853), Cranford (1851-3), North and South
(1855), Sylvia’s Lovers (1863), etc. Her last work was Wives and
Daughters (1865), which appeared in the Cornhill Magazine, and was
left unfinished. Mrs. G. had some of the characteristics of Miss Austen, and if
her style and delineation of character are less minutely perfect, they are, on
the other hand, imbued with a deeper vein of feeling. She was the friend of
Charlotte Bronté (q.v.), to whom her sympathy brought much comfort, and
whose Life she wrote. About Cranford Lord Houghton wrote, “It is
the finest piece of humoristic description that has been added to British
literature since Charles Lamb.”
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CRANFORD
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Fiction, England, social life and customs, 19th
century
Based on stories from her
childhood, Gaskell offers an ironic commentary on early victorian life
in a country town. Cranford has charm, humor, and pathos without
sentimentality, and no purpose other than to present and regret the
passing of a community whose values are worth recalling. Cranford is the
name of a small, imaginary town in the north-west of England. The
narrator, Mary Smith, describes the lives of Cranford's inhabitants with
affection and amusement. It is mostly "ladies" who rule Cranford -men
are not much in evidence- and these ladies have a great many social
rules. For example, it is very important to visit newcomers to the town,
and people must never talk about anything that matters because there is
no time to do it. Another strange thing about Cranford is that there are
not many men about. The ladies in the town are quite old and they are
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MARY
BARTON (348 KB)
Fiction,
England, social life and customs, 19th century
She won instant
recognition with her first novel, Mary Barton (1848), which
shocked readers with its revelations about the grim living conditions of
Manchester factory workers and antagonized some influential critics
because of its open sympathy for the workers in their relations with the
masters; but the high quality of the writing and the characterization
were undeniable. (Its accuracy as social observation has been compared
to the work of Friedrich Engels and other contemporaries by critics such
as John Lucas.) At the same time it presented a new world, the world of
Lancashire factory people, making them the main characters and using
their dialect (judiciously modified) for the dialogue. |
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