Their attitude towards the poor, the “Other Nation”, was fundamentally that of horror and fear of rebellion, the contagion of diseases, disgust and sometimes even pity (Smith 203). The increased level of literacy in Victorian England contributed to a mass-market for book publishing and its mass audience was mainly made up of middle-class readers (O’Gorman 1).
Elizabeth Gaskell is one of the more prominent novelists who wrote about such conditions by drawing the reader’s attention to the social injustices of her time. The condition of the lower classes under the effects of industrialisation is one of the most frequently depicted topics in literary works about nineteenth century England. Social Conditions of the Lower Classes in Nineteenth Century Englandģ.1 Definition of a social explorer and how Margaret Hale could be considered as oneģ.2 Margaret Hale’s insights and observations in detail
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