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Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. Julie Nash shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and novels such as Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Belinda, and Helen and Gaskell's North and South and Cranford, among others.

Household employees in literature. --- Social change in literature. --- Domestics in literature --- Edgeworth, Maria, --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Author of Mary Barton, --- Gaskell, E. C. --- Gaskell, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson, --- Gaskell, --- Mills, Cotton Mather, --- Stevenson, Elizabeth, --- Gaskell, Isabel C., --- Stevenson, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Edgeworth, --- Author of Practical education, --- Practical education, Author of, --- Author of Letters for literary ladies, --- Letters for literary ladies, Author of, --- Edgeworth, Eliza, --- Criticism and interpretation.