Mary Barton

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton focuses on the early 1840s, a decade known as the Hungry Forties. Through the story, Gaskell expresses her sympathy for the labourers who suffer economic hardships and social problems. However, when they combine forces, she describes them with fear; the narrator states that “combination is an awful power” (168). The period in which Gaskell lived saw the important innovations of the Industrial Revolution and accompanying social problems because of increasing industrialization. Gaskell conveys the danger of united labour’s action. The first half of the novel climaxes with the burning of Carson’s mill. During this scene, characters with and without interests in labour-management problems are described quite differently. For example, “the multitude in the street absolutely danced with triumph, and huzzaed, and yelled . . . and them, with all the fickleness of interest characteristic of a large body of people, pressed and stumbled, and cursed and swore” (53–54). They move together, while “the eager inquiries, the shouts, the sea-like murmurs of the moving rolling mass began again to be heard” (52–53), and “the closely-packed body of men heaved and rolled from side to side” (53). Gaskell describes them not as a violent revolutionary group but alludes to them as rolling waves; in this way, she identifies…

The article highlights the critical disclaims of Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Mary Barton’ and its ‘irrelevant’ subplots, subplots Stoneman expresses present the maternal relationship between a child and father, the latter of whom emits a feminine tenderness consequent of the harsh middle class environment. Mary Barton determines morale in correspondence with class, reflecting upon the invasion of the industrial revolution within rural surroundings. Stoneman explores how these events affect the…

Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life follows the hostilities and tension between workers and masters unfolding in Manchester. The plot revolves around the protagonist Mary and her close friends and father. Her development follows her from girlhood to motherhood. She matures away from her inclination towards money and status, to true love and happiness. Because of these inclusions, the novel should be categorized in the contested concept of bildungsroman. Ultimately,…

towards the working class in her novel Mary Barton, can simply be viewed and analyzed as a complex, oblivious relationship with a sense of mixed feelings of admiration and apprehension in the same context. Although numerous other, “well-known…

Martha Chase Martha Cowles Chase was born November 20, 1927 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Graduated from Wooster, Ohio in 1950 and earned her bachelor's degree. In 1952, Martha used a kitchen blender to help prove DNA is the molecule that carries genetic information. This provided a foundation of molecular biology and inspired Dr. Watson to develop the double helix bond model of DNA. In 1953, Martha left college to work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. In 1964, she went back to…

Clara Barton once stated “I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them” (A Most Horrid Picture). Barton was one of the most influential Americans in the Civil War era. She was the founder of the American Red Cross which has helped millions of people get their lives back after tragedy. Barton had learned her vital nursing skills in her early years when her brother became injured from a farming accident and…

Carter Husmann Mr. Clay Modern US History 14 October 2015 Clara Barton “I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”(Barton) These words were said by…. Clara Barton, was a nurse in the Civil War and the founder of the American Red Cross. She was known as the "angel of the battlefield" for her volunteer efforts during the Civil War. Her life was dedicated to her work. When the Civil War broke out, she…

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born in Lancaster, a small town in Massachusetts, on July 4, 1868. Leavitt graduated from Radcliffe College. She worked at Harvard University in the 1890’s as a human “computer.” Her job was to perform mathematical calculations in a time before digital computers could perform the same tasks. At this job she merely received 10 dollars and fifty cents a week, a pitiful amount given her great contributions to astronomy. She actually hadn’t started studying astronomy until…

One famous woman, Harriet Tubman, served as a spy for the Union army. Harriet would hide through many different disguises, to lead other local black spies to get any information necessary to them and the Union army. Another woman, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, has a story that is less documented than Harriet Tubman’s, but is no less intriguing. People say that Mary had a photographic memory and was able to remember all the information she saw that was needed for her spy work. Mary was unfortunetly…

Introduction: Clara Barton was born December 25, 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. She attended Clinton Liberal Institute and became familiar with abolition, women’s rights and education. (Whitelaw, 5) Her father, Captain Steven Barton, a veteran of the Indian Wars, was a great influence on her. Not only did he teach Clara military tactics, geography, and how to properly equip an army, as a woman he told her that she could do anything she desired. (Whitelaw, 6) She refused to be treated as less…