In a novel by this author, a woman is hit with a stone while protecting a mill owner from a crowd of striking workers. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of that social novel about Margaret Hale and John Thornton. That novel by this author is titled for two contrasting regions that represent tradition and the landed gentry versus modernity and capitalism.
ANSWER: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [or Elizabeth Stevenson] (The novel is North and South.)
[10h] An earlier Gaskell novel explores industrialization and labor relations through this protagonist, whose father joins the Chartist movement. This protagonist is conflicted between loving the working-class Jem Wilson or the wealthy Harry Carson.
ANSWER: Mary Barton [or Mary Barton]
[10e] Gaskell’s novels North and South and Cranford were serialized in Household Words, a magazine edited by this author. During his editorial tenure, this author also wrote Bleak House and David Copperfield.
ANSWER: Charles Dickens [or Charles John Huffam Dickens]
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