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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 ...
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 ...
A son, William, (1844–45), died in infancy, and this tragedy was the catalyst for Mrs. Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton. It was ready for publication in October 1848, [3] shortly before they made the move south. It was an enormous success, selling thousands of copies. Ritchie called it a "great and remarkable sensation."
The fictional Cranford is based on the small Cheshire town of Knutsford in which Elizabeth Gaskell grew up. She had already drawn on her childhood memories for an article published in America, "The Last Generation in England" (1849), and for the town of Duncombe which featured in her extended story "Mr. Harrison's Confessions" (1851).
Ruth Hilton – The titular 15 year-old heroine. Later referred to as Mrs Denbigh. Henry Bellingham – Ruth's lover. He is 23 years old. He changes his name to Mr Donne.
[12] [18] Stephen Derry mentions that Gaskell uses the concept of the shrinking cell to describe John Barton's state of mind but also added the element of luxury in order to further enhance it: I have somewhere read a forcibly described punishment among the Italians, worthy of a Borgia. The supposed or real criminal was shut up in a room ...
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The Poor Clare is a short story by English Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell.First serialised in three installments in 1856 Charles Dickens' popular magazine Household Words, [1] The Poor Clare is a gothic ghost story [2] about a young woman unwittingly cursed by her own grandmother.