... quot; novels. The "events and details in [her] novel[s] clearly mirror the events in Victorian society" (Mendac n. pag.) and her works are nowadays still "generally associated with Manchester by her readers" (Sanders 416). Thus, Gaskell's writings might be regarded as her "explicit ... the living conditions of the poor. Her emotional response to her first visit of the Higginses, who represent the hard-working, suffering laborers of Milton, also proves her highly empathetic nature for she "could [afterwards] hardly smile at [her father's] little joke, so oppressed was she ... classes an...

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