Amanchester neighborhood
background information: this excerpt is from elizabeth which social class do you think lived in the conditions
gaskell's novel mary barton, describing life in
described in the passage?
manchester in the early 1800s.
all that part of the town was comparatively old; it was
o middle class
there that the first cotton mills were built, and the
o working class
crowded alleys and back streets of the neighbourhood
o upper class
made a fire there particularly to be dreaded. the staircase
of the mill ascended from the entrance at the western o agrarian class
end, which faced into a wide, dingy-looking street,
consisting principally of public-houses, pawnbrokers
shops, rag and bone warehouses, and dirty provision
shops. the other, the east end of the factory, fronted into
a very narrow back street, not twenty feet wide, and
miserably lighted and paved.
- mary barton, elizabeth gaskell