... time. The increased level of literacy in Victorian England contributed to a mass-market for book publishing and its mass audience was mainly made up of middle-class readers (O'Gorman 1). Their attitude towards the poor, the "Other Nation", was fundamentally that of horror and fear of rebellion, the contagion of diseases, disgust and sometimes even pity (Smith 203). They were able to read about ... is able to establish a link between them. Her contact with common people (laborers in Helstone, workmen in Milton) and people from the upper-class (the manufacturer John Thornton) allows her t...

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