Irlandia i inne kraje - sprawdź informacja na stronie "dostawa". Książka Mary Barton - wysyłka UK tylko £1.90. If to our eyes her vision remains limited, it was an honest vision, for which she was much criticised in her own time, by her own class. She is radical in taking on their dialect, imagining the realities of their lives, and placing a working woman at the centre of her fiction. As the wife of a Unitarian minister she was solidly middle-class but she also had close contact with the working classes around her, sympathised with them, and represented their extreme distresses in her fiction. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote her first novel about the world in which she lived – Manchester at the height of the industrial revolution. Mary Barton was published in 1848, at a time of great social ferment in Europe, and it reflects its revolutionary moment through an English lens.
And at the heart of the narrative lies a murder which implicates them all.
His daughter Mary is caught between two lovers, from opposing classes – worker and manufacturer. John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience with his socialist duty, risking his life and liberty in the process. But these clashes are dramatized through personal struggles. (Summary from Wikipedia)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit Gaskell’s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. Sympathetic to the poor whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends, she clashes with John Thornton, a cotton mill manufacturer who belongs to the nouveaux riches and whose contemptuous attitude to workers Margaret despises. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the brutal world wrought by the industrial revolution and employers and workers clashing in the first organized strikes. This quiet genteel life in Southern England was shattered by an unexpected and unwanted proposal from Edith’s brother-in-law, Henry Lennox, and her father’s shocking news that doubts about the Church of England led him to leave the Church and move his family to the industrial Northern town of Milton. North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. LibriVox recording of North and South by Elizabeth Gask3ll.
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