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Presents the story of the daughter of an imprisoned debtor, who works to free her family from their circumstances as she suffers the injustices of nineteenth-century English society.
2. Middlemarch
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"A novel 'with a double plot interest. The heroine, Dorothea Brooke, longs to devote herself to some great cause and, for a time, expects to find it in her marriage to Rev. Mr. Casaubon, an aging scholar. Mr. Casaubon lives only eighteen months after their marriage, a sufficient period to disillusion her completely. He leaves her his estate, with the ill-intentioned proviso that she will forfeit if she marries his young cousin Will Ladislaw, whom...
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Mrs. Gaskell portrays industrial conditions in various regions of England in this nineteenth-century psychological novel.