ELIZABETH GASKELL
(1810-1865)
Elizabeth Gaskell, a clergyman’s daughter, also married a clergyman. Her husband
and she made a study of living and working conditions of textile workers in
Manchester and her first novel “Mary Barton” (1848) contains a vivid picture of
the industrial conflicts which prevailed at that time. It was severely criticized by
reactionary critics as a book hostile to the employers while Dickens and other
representatives of progressive literature supported the author. Her first novel
“Mary Barton” was undoubtedly the best owing to its realistic treatment of the
main facts of the social and political life of that period.
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