This book attempts to trace Elizabeth Gaskells historical consciousness and gender awareness in her effort to provide a participant view of some of the most important events in 19th c. English history to communicate her feminine vision of life and her version of history. The book provides a brief account of the most important incidents of the 19th c. England and deals with the politics of gender to shed some light on sexuality and ideology of femininity. While chapter two and five focus on Gaskells Condition-of-England novels, Mary Barton and North and South in which a shift happens from the...