1. Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian England
... (Stoneman 128). In addition to her independent and wilful behaviour, Margaret is highly perceptive and shows a great deal of sympathy for the suffering of the poor. She regards the people of Helstone as "her people [with whom] [s]he made hearty friends" (Gaskell 16). She "learned ... she "could [afterwards] hardly smile at [her father's] little joke, so oppressed was she by her visit" (Gaskell 106). Another important aspect is that Margaret stems from a rural background and yet belongs to the London upper-class by upbringing. Therefore, she is used to moving ... in a poem" (Gaskell 9). ...
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