Gaskell’s The Manchester Marriage tells about Mr. and Mrs. Openshaw who have to move from Manchester to London for business. The story tells about their marriage after Alice, now Mrs. Openshaw, was left alone with a child and without livelihoods. One evening, AlicÈs first husband comes to his daughter asking for his mother’s news. When the man discovers that the woman has remarried he throws himself into the Thames. The girl discovers the past of her mother in Manchester, she meets her real father and she will assume the consequences of her mother’s past...

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• Uncle Peter
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