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  2. Mary Barton - Wikipedia

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    Mary Barton was first published as two volumes in October 1848. [Note 1] Gaskell was paid £100 for the novel. [4] The publisher Edward Chapman had had the manuscript since the middle of 1847. He had several recorded influences on the novel, the most prominent of which is probably the change in title: the novel was originally entitled John ...

  3. Social commentary - Wikipedia

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    Social commentary is the act of using rhetorical means to provide commentary on social, cultural, political, or economic issues in a society. This is often done with the idea of implementing or promoting change by informing the general populace about a given problem and appealing to people's sense of justice.

  4. North and South (Gaskell novel) - Wikipedia

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    The story centers on haughty Margaret Hale, who learns to overcome her prejudices against the North in general and charismatic manufacturer John Thornton in particular. Gaskell would have preferred to call the novel Margaret Hale (as she had done in 1848 for her novel Mary Barton), but Dickens prevailed. He wrote in a 26 July 1854 letter that ...

  5. Social novel - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Gaskell's first industrial novel Mary Barton (1848) deals with relations between employers and workers, but its narrative adopted the view of the working poor and describes the "misery and hateful passions caused by the love of pursuing wealth as well as the egoism, thoughtlessness and insensitivity of manufacturers". [10]

  6. Elizabeth Gaskell - Wikipedia

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    Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was the first biography of Charlotte Brontë. In this biography, she wrote only of the moral, sophisticated things in Brontë's life; the rest she omitted, deciding certain, more salacious aspects were better kept hidden.

  7. Mary Alice Barton - Wikipedia

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    Mary Barton was the only woman in her department. [2] [6] In 1946, with the arrival of her first child, Barton gave up her job to become a full-time homemaker. [2] The couple eventually had 4 sons. [4] Following her husband's career, they moved from Washington to Iowa, to Michigan, and finally back to Ames, Iowa. [2]

  8. 'Something is going to happen:' 4 takeaways from political ...

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    Here are four takeaways from the discussion: ‘Something is going to happen’ "We’re going into a very volatile situation, with the two candidates' (Trump and Biden) combined age at the end of ...

  9. Fran Lebowitz - Wikipedia

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    Frances Ann Lebowitz (/ ˈ l iː b ə w ɪ t s /; [1] born October 27, 1950) is an American author, [2] public speaker, [3] [4] and actor. [5] She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese ...