Chapter 1: 0:00—Backwater Manchester. 4:08—Cottage industry. 5:33—Proto-industrialization. 8:55—Urbanization & Industrialization. 11:42—Childhood in Knutsford, school in Stratford, marriage in Manchester. 14:38—The novel begins. 18:18—Factory girls. 22:36—A murky blot. 26:54—The Bartons & The Wilsons. 29:35—Lanky maggots. 31:49—Working women. 36:22—Class resentment. 40:15—Meeting Mary. 40:53—Interlude.

Chapter 2-6: 41:36—Meeting Manchester. 42:50—The Bartons’ home. 45:33—Some nettles. 48:10—Alice’s residence. 49:42—Silver Fork vs. Industrial novels. 50:50—Hidden lives. 53:46—Real lives. 55:42—Dirty looks. 59:17—“Oh, mother, mother!” 1:02:16—A changed man. 1:03:21—The necessaries of life. 1:07:42—Gaskell’s loss. 1:08:53—Mary’s work. 1:10:52—Meeting Margaret. 1:11:58—Mortality rates. 1:16:21—Alice & Will. 1:16:55—Scientific men in humble life. 1:20:50—Job Legh. 1:22:43—Mary’s coldness. 1:26:12—Extinguishing the fire. 1:29:20—Closing.

Text: Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton. 1848. Oxford Univ. Press, 2006.

Interlude: William Schumann, Cello Concerto in A minor, opus 129 (1859), performed by the Bamberg Symphony, with Gaspar Cassado, conducted by Jonel Perlea, 1956 (Internet Archive).

Image: Portrait of Elizabeth Gaskell by George Richmond, 1851 (Wikipedia).

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