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| a7c297b | consciousness. Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855), Charlotte Bronte's Shirley (1849), George Eliot's Silas Marner (1861) and many other such literary portrayals appeared in these years to testify to this growing attention. A novel might have been written about the travails of Davitt's life too. As a child he was employed in the cotton industry, working in the local mills that resounded to the din of vast and d.. | Neil Hegarty |