Elizabeth Gaskell and the Social Realism of Victorian Fiction
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Elizabeth Gaskell used social realism to challenge Victorian assumptions about class, poverty, and women’s lives. Drawing on her Unitarian beliefs and experience in industrial Manchester, she wrote novels that portrayed mill workers, “fallen women,” and family loss with unusual sympathy and blunt realism.
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