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Yes this was very much a Victorian melodrama, and I fully see the argument that this was a weaker earlier precursor to Tess of the d‘Urbervilles, but I love Gaskell‘s writing and I loved this. Surprisingly progressive to see a fallen woman helped into a meaningful life by a disabled man who was never treated as pathetic or monstrous by the narrative - my heart was in my throat so much.
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