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CRANFORD
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 not interested in men ... or that is what they say.
MARY BARTON
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.
Academic year 2009/2010
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Natalia Quintana Morán
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Universitat de Valčncia Press
ELIZABETH GASKELL, 1810- 1865: CRANFORD- Mary Barton
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