盖斯凯尔夫人的《玛丽·巴顿》和《南方与北方》揭示了十九世纪英国社会的劳资矛盾。盖氏在揭露工人阶级触目惊心的悲惨生活的同时,也对马克思主义影响下的工人运动和工人代表进行攻击和歪曲。这两部小说中充斥着当时英国社会的多种意识形态“声音”。这些声音在小说里相互争辩着,最后在占主导的作者叙述声音的疏导下,走向妥协。 Mrs. Gaskell’s “Mary Barton” and “The South and the North” reveal the labor-management conflicts of nineteenth-century British society. While exposing the horrifying and tragic life of the working class, Gai also attacked and distorted the workers ’and workers’ representatives under the influence of Marxism. These two novels are full of various ideologies “voices ” of British society at that time. These voices argued with each other in novels, and finally came to compromise under the guidance of the narrative voice of the dominant author.