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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Elizabeth Gaskell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The avowed intention of the novel was to awaken the sympathy of the author's middle-class readership for the plight of the suffering urban poor. |
 | | Paradoxically, the novel insists most effectively upon the common humanity which connects its reader with the representative working-class men and women it depicts, when the individual integrity and cultural specificity of the latter is loyally evoked and preserved. |
 | | In her next novel, North and South (1854-5), which was serialised in Dickens's periodical Household Words, Mrs Gaskell fictionalised, in the character of her heroine Margaret Hale, her own experience, as a young woman, of exchanging the cultured, stable, rural world of her childhood for the complexity, confusions and excitements of urban life in Manchester. |
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