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A fifteen-year-old dressmakers apprentice is seduced and abandoned and a dissenting minister and his sister take her in and pass her off as a widow a lie that must eventually be paid for by someone Gaskell a Manchester ministers wife published this in 1853 readers burned it two men in her husbands congregation forbade their wives to read it and she wrote that she felt like St Sebastian It is the first English novel to treat a fallen woman as a p...Seguir leyendo