Social Themes and Contexts Contexts of Gaskell's Fiction

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North and South

• Contrast of the Industrial North and Rural South
• The Governess and Class Prejudice
• Jane Eyre and North and South on Social Class
• Dominance Issues in Gaskell's North and South
• The role of the Working Class Woman in the Labor Strikes
• Roles in the Workplace
• North and South and Contemporary Agricultural Workers
• Masters and Men
• Class Disparities and Linguistic Mannerisms in Gaskell and Dickens

Ruth

• Unconsciousness and the Escape from Middle-class Identity in Mrs. Gaskell's Ruth

Miscellaneous

• Upper-Class Ignorance of Worker's Conditions — The Evidence of The Illustrated London News
• The Death of Children
• Victorian Social History: An Overview

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