Chapter 7: 0:00—Morose & sour. 4:33—Typhoid. 5:03—The underworld. 11:31—Brute tribes. 13:53—The Davenports. 16:20—City life. 19:07—Rags to riches. 20:49—Meeting the master. 25:22—The ghoul. 32:17—Unpolished Jem. 34:39—Mary’s fantasy. 36:49—Interlude.

Chapters 8-10: 37:26—Unrelenting depression. 42:44—Criminal sentence. 45:47—Chartism. 49:17—When Harry used Sally. 52:04—Chartist failure. 54:26—“Song of Slaughter.” 56:26—Crawling through life. 57:41—Visions of the future. 59:34—After angry words. 1:02:58—Bad parenting. 1:05:01—Jem & Jane. 1:06:15—Opium for the masses. 1:09:56—A woman of no doubtful profession. 1:13:00—Interlude.

Chapters 11-14: 1:13:36—Dear Mary. 1:18:13—Mary, Mary quite contrary. 1:20:32—A little touch of Harry in the night. 1:24:39—An impossible distance. 1:26:05—Will & Alice. 1:27:21—Courts & grubs. 1:32:21—The story of Esther. 1:35:15—The seeds of vice. 1:45:11—Someone should die. 1:47:13—1848. 1:49:21—Closing.

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

Interlude: Robert Schumann, Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor (1847), performed by the Claremont Trio, Jan. 26, 2025 (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum).

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

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