Chapter II: Novels 59

SOCIAL QUESTIONS

Poor _versus_ Rich.

Working Men’s Petition to Parliament, 1839.

Meeting between the Masters and their Employees.

John Barton joins the Chartists.

The Trial for Murder.

John Barton’s Confession.

Job Legh defends John Barton.

A Manchester Strike in the “Hungry Forties.”

North _versus_ South

Nicholas Higgins discusses Religion with the
Retired Clergyman.

HUMOROUS

The new Mamma—Mrs. Gibson.

Calf-Love.

Heart Trouble.

The Young Doctor’s Dilemma.

Family Prayer at Hope Farm.

Miss Galindo.

London as John Barton saw it.

Major Jenkyns visits Cranford.

Mrs. Gibson visits Lady Cumnor.

Mrs. Gibson’s Little Dinner Party.

A Visit to an Old Bachelor.

Marriage.

A Love Affair of Long Ago.

The Cat and the Lace.

Small Economies.

Elegant Economy.

Sally tells of her Sweethearts.

Sally Makes her Will.

Betty’s Advice to Phillis.

Practical Christianity.

Betty Gives Paul Manning a Lecture.

DESCRIPTIVE

Green Heys Fields.

A Lancashire Tea-party in the Early Forties.

Babby’s Journey from London to Manchester.

A Dissenting Minister’s Household.

The Chapel at Eccleston.

The Dawn of a Gala Day.

A Manchester Mill on Fire.

In Pursuit of the _John Cropper_.

Hobbies among the Lancashire Poor.

The Press-gang in Yorkshire during the latter
part of the Eighteenth Century.

The Sailor’s Funeral at Monkshaven.

A Press-gang Riot at Monkshaven.

A Game of Blind-man’s Buff.

Philip Hepburn Leaves the New Year’s Party.

Kinraid’s Return to Monkshaven.

Roger Hamley’s Farewell.

Cousin Phillis.

The Dawn of Love.