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Servants and paternalism in the works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Servants and paternalism in the works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell.

Nash, Julie.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2007

130 pages

$89.95

Hardcover

Nineteenth century series

PR4647

Nash (English, U. of Massachusetts-Lowell) shows how the novels of Edgeworth (1767-1849) and Gaskell (1810-65) portray a Britain in which strict class hierarchies were being re-evaluated and re-invented. Going beyond the permissible feminine realms of courtship and marriage, she says, they addressed the exploitation of the Irish peasantry, ...

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