![]() The novel depicts Victorian realities from prostitution to typhoid fever, and these themes may be triggering for students according to Warwick’s content advisory, which warns that “misogyny recurs throughout” the book along with “references to bleak and violent deaths”. ![]() In common with the author’s other works like North and South, Mary Barton deals with the different strata of British society, and makes mention of “alienation between the different classes” and feelings of “hatred to the one class and keen sympathy with the other”. Gaskell’s famous portrayal of 19th-century society “features rather extreme instances of classism”, according to the warning issued by the university’s English department. ![]() A Victorian novel about the plight of the poor has been given a trigger warning for containing “extreme classism”.Įlizabeth Gaskell’s 1848 work Mary Barton, which follows the struggles of characters in industrial Manchester, has been found by academics at the University of Warwick to be potentially upsetting for modern students. ![]()
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