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    <![CDATA[Mary Barton]]>
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    <![CDATA[Set in Manchester in the 1840s, Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself--a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, who becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront her true feelings and allegiances.<br/> This new edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Gaskell.  The introduction provides historical and biographical context to the novel, a survey of critical responses to Mary Barton, and argues that Gaskell was chiefly concerned with the importance of communication as a means of healing breaches between people.  In addition, the book contains an up-to-date critical biography, revised notes and appendixes that include Gaskell's rough draft and outline of the novel's conclusion.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Sylvia's Lovers]]>
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    <![CDATA[A was powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, <em>Sylvia's Lovers</em> is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service. One of their victims is a whaling harpooner named Charley Kinraid, whose charm and vivacity have captured the heart of Sylvia Robson. But Sylvia's devoted cousin, Philip Hepburn, hopes to marry her himself and, in order to win her, deliberately withholds crucial information&#151;with devastating consequences.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1964</published>
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    <![CDATA[What Katy Read: Feminist Re-Readings of Classic Stories for Girls, 1850-1920]]>
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    <![CDATA[Written by women for children, girls' fiction has been doubly marginalized by the critical establishment, yet it remains a crucial element in most girls' formative literary experience. In their original and provocative analysis of texts written between 1850 and 1920 - including Little Women, What Katy Did, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, The Daisy Chain, The Railway Children, The Madcap of the School, and The Wide, Wide World - Foster and Simons examine what makes a classic and how such texts construct role models which both reflect and subvert contemporary ideologies of childhood. By applying twentieth-century feminist theory to this body of literature, What Katy Read uncovers a challenging and exciting new dimension to a previously ignored area. Through close readings of these eight North American and British novels, which have had a powerful impact on the development of literature for girls, Foster and Simons consider genres from the domestic myth to the school story, analyze the transgressive figure of the tomboy, and discuss ways in which superficially conventional texts implicitly undermine patterns of patriarchy. Their stimulating and innovative study will be essential reading for students of women's writing and children's literature alike.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Gaskell: A Literary Life]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;This literary biographical study examines the life and works of the mid-Victorian woman novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell, whose popularity is now well established. It places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work. It pays particular attention to the ways in which she sought to reconcile the conflicting demands made upon her, as woman and as artist.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[An Anthology of Women's Travel Writing]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;From eccentric, to cautious, to conventional, <em>An anthology of Women's Travel Writing</em> aims to challenge stereotypes of women travelers by presenting a range of possible forms of writing and new archetypes of female travelers. These diverse writings also attempt to confront the textual problems which result from both writing and traveling as a woman, such as the depiction of other women, the representation of spatial relations, and the relationship to the adventure hero narrative.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual]]>
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    <![CDATA[Victorian women's fiction: Marriage, freedom, and the individual]]>
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    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Gaskell]]>
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