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    Mrs. Gaskell: (1810 - 65) :-Mrs. Gaskell Had Nothing of This Passion and Frustration

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    Mrs. Gaskell was a Unitarian clergyman's wife and mother of seven in Manchester during the Industrial Revolution. She wrote novels that either dealt with social and industrial problems arising from worker struggles, based on her experiences in Manchester, or avoided such issues and focused on rural life, drawing from her time in Knutsford. Her most famous rural novel, Cranford, portrays a community of middle-class women. George Eliot was one of the most philosophical of the major Victorian novelists. Her novels seriously discuss moral issues and feature characters whose wills clash with circumstances. She was pioneering in focusing wholly on character development rather than incidents. Eliot excelled at portraying the inner lives and unfulfilled longings

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    Mrs. Gaskell was a Unitarian clergyman's wife and mother of seven in Manchester during the Industrial Revolution. She wrote novels that either dealt with social and industrial problems arising from worker struggles, based on her experiences in Manchester, or avoided such issues and focused on rural life, drawing from her time in Knutsford. Her most famous rural novel, Cranford, portrays a community of middle-class women. George Eliot was one of the most philosophical of the major Victorian novelists. Her novels seriously discuss moral issues and feature characters whose wills clash with circumstances. She was pioneering in focusing wholly on character development rather than incidents. Eliot excelled at portraying the inner lives and unfulfilled longings

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    Mrs. Gaskell was a Unitarian clergyman's wife and mother of seven in Manchester during the Industrial Revolution. She wrote novels that either dealt with social and industrial problems arising from worker struggles, based on her experiences in Manchester, or avoided such issues and focused on rural life, drawing from her time in Knutsford. Her most famous rural novel, Cranford, portrays a community of middle-class women. George Eliot was one of the most philosophical of the major Victorian novelists. Her novels seriously discuss moral issues and feature characters whose wills clash with circumstances. She was pioneering in focusing wholly on character development rather than incidents. Eliot excelled at portraying the inner lives and unfulfilled longings

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    Gaskell had nothing of this passion and frustration


    of the Bronte sister. She was wife of a quite Unitarian clergyman in Manchester one of
    the bugging centres of English industry. She was mother of seven children.
    What distinguishes the novels of Mrs. Gaskell is her deep social consciousness combined
    with a compassionate observation of the life around her? Her novels divide themselves
    into two well defined categorizes. First, we have novel like Mary Barton and North and
    south which deal with the social and industrial problem arising out of the masters
    workmen struggles which were a features of the industrial age which had then just got
    under way. Being herself a resident of Manchester, Mrs. Gaskell was a witness to the
    blessings of the Industrial Revolution. Secondly we have novel like Ganford, Ruth,
    wives and Daughters and Sylvias Lovers which eschew all industrial problems and are
    concerned with rural life and manners which she knew so well, thanks to her long stay at
    Knutsford with her aunt, before she settled at Manchester with her husband. Of all the
    novels of this category the best known is Coranford which is a disguised name for her
    own Knutsford Ganford is a classic of its own kind. It portrays a world in habited by
    woman alone. These women belong to middle class families.
    GEORGE ELIOT (1819 80):- With George Eliot we come to the most philosophy of
    all the major Victorian novelists, both female and male philosophy is both her strength
    and weakness as a novelists. It keeps her from falling into bathos or triviality, but at the
    same time gives her art an ultra serious and reflective quality which makes it heavy
    reading. Even her human the faculty in which she doubtlessly is quite seen has
    about it the quality of ponderous reflectivity. George Eliots important novel are the
    following:- The mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, Felix Holt, Daniel Deronda
    and Middlemarch. All of them are marked by extreme seriousness of purpose and
    execution. As Samuel Chew observes, in George Eliot hands the novel was not primarily
    for entertainment but for the serious discussion of moral issues. She is indeed, too
    didactic and make every incident a text moralistic expatiation. In her novels we
    invariably meet with the clash of circumstances with human will. She indeed, believed
    that circumstances influenced character, but she did not show circumstance entirely
    determining character. A man called upon to choose between two women or a woman to
    choose between two men is the common motif of the novels.
    Another important feature of her novels is their very deep concern with human
    psychology. Her novels are all novels of character. She, says Compton Rickett
    was the first novelist foray the stress wholly upon character rather than incident; to
    make her stories spiritual rather than physical dramas. In her characterization she
    displays both subtlety and rarity. Her studies of the inner man, but more particularly the
    inner woman, are marvelous.
    George Eliot excels at portraying the tragedy of unfulfilled female longing. She identified
    herself with her chief female characters unfold their inner feelings with masterly
    strollers. Compton Rickett points out: Maggies was for fuller life, Romolas for
    ampler knowledge, Darotheas for larger opportunity for doing well. She stands at the
    gateway between the old novel and the new, a massive caryatid heavy of countenance
    uneasy of attitude, but noble, monumental, profoundly impressive.

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