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Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell | |
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About 758 pages (227,333 words) in 28 products |
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Elizabeth Gaskell | | Birth Date: |
September 29, 1810 | | Death Date: |
November 12, 1865 | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Elizabeth Gaskell
426 words, approx. 1.4 pages
 The English author Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) wrote sociological novels that explored the ills of industrial England and novels of small-town life that are penetrating studies of character. Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson was born on Sept. 29, 1810. Her... summary from source:
Biography of Elizabeth Gaskell
7669 words, approx. 25.6 pages
 A recent review of Mrs. Gaskell's critical reputation divided her critics into three camps. One group, now fading, still treats her mainly as the author of Cranford (1853). A second emphasizes her "social-problem" novels but insists that they be regarded... summary from source:
 Biography of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
7343 words, approx. 24.5 pages
For some critics Elizabeth Gaskell was a conventional, middle-class Victorian wife and mother who accepted the values of her world and who also happened to write books--a feminine dove among literary eagles Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, to borr...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Mary Barton Information
1,559 words, approx. 5 pages
Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s and deals heavily with the difficulties faced by the Victorian lower...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by John Lucas
14,884 words, approx. 50 pages
In the following excerpt, Lucas attributes the flaws in Mary Barton to Gaskell's failure to deal honestly with the social conditions she was attempting to represent.
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Critical Essay by W. A. Craik
13,522 words, approx. 45 pages
In the essay that follows, Craik contends that although Gaskell's Mary Barton is concerned with issues of social reform, it avoids a didactic tone in order to emphasize realistic situations and characters.
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Critical Essay by Margaret Ganz
12,794 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following excerpt, Ganz discusses the authenticity of Gaskell's representation of working-class problems in Mary Barton.
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