Story summary
Streszczenie książki Manchesterczyk
- 8 min czytania
- 10 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A baby asleep in a painted cradle floats down a flooded Manchester river toward a tanner's hook.
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Manchesterczyk — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 9 h 5 min7 h 10 min fast, 10 h 50 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 129 700
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1876by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks
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Manchesterczyk in short
The Manchester Man follows one foundling across forty years of a growing city. A baby rescued from the flooded Irk is raised by a tanner and his daughter, named by a rough chaplain, schooled by charity and trained in a warehouse. As he rises, his integrity is tested by a cruel childhood rival, by Peterloo and by a love he cannot say aloud.
What Manchesterczyk is about
What would you do if a cradle with a sleeping baby came floating down a flooded river toward you? In August 1799 the Irk in Manchester bursts its banks, and an old tanner named Simon Clegg runs onto Tanners Bridge with a hook and a pole. He catches the cradle, and a boy with no family is carried to Simon's daughter Bess.
The Manchester Man is a novel by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks, published in 1876. She fills it with the real streets, riots and disasters of her own city. It follows that baby, Jabez Clegg, from the flood through a charity school and an apprenticeship. One question runs under every chapter. Who are you when no one knows where you come from?
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The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A tanner pulls a baby from the flood
The story opens in 1799 on the banks of the Irk. Simon Clegg, the oldest man in William Clough's tannery, drags hides from the pits before the water can take them.
Then a shriek goes up from house to house. A painted wooden cradle rides over the mill dam, and inside it a baby sleeps calmly while the water carries him toward ruin. Simon rushes onto Tanners Bridge with a hook and a pole. He catches the wooden hood, and the men lift the cradle onto the footpath. Simon carries the screaming child to his daughter Bess, who quiets him at once.
Mr. Clough offers Simon a crown for the rescue, and Simon refuses it. This refusal gives the novel its first measure of a person, which is what they do when nobody forces them.
Goodness that takes no payment is the root from which the whole story grows.
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A gruff parson changes the baby's name
Simon and Mat search the valley of the Irk and learn the sad facts.
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A spiteful lie costs Bess her sweetheart
Bess has a sweetheart, Tom Hulme, a handloom weaver who marched off with the Lancashire Volunteers to Ireland.
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The Blue-Coat school makes a boy of Jabez
At seven Jabez is nearly sent to a cotton factory.
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A schoolyard feud ends with a plunge
Laurence Aspinall grows up spoiled by a father always at business and a nurse who has promised never to cross him.
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An honest apprentice learns the warehouse trade
In 1813 Mr. Ashton, a small-wares manufacturer, chooses Jabez as his apprentice, and Jabez leaves the College for a Mosley Street warehouse.
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Peterloo breaks into the household
The years after the wars bring hunger, high bread prices and calls for reform.
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Augusta chooses a handsome danger
Jabez's heart belongs to Augusta Ashton, and he guards that secret closely.
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Names, duty and mercy hold the story together
The book keeps asking what makes a person.
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A town speaks through its storyteller
The narrator is openly a Manchester woman and takes pleasure in saying so.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Jabez Clegg A foundling saved from the flood who grows into a steady, honest businessman and tries to keep a promise to deserve his name.
- Simon Clegg A small, kind tanner who rescues the cradle and teaches Jabez to swim, to read his Bible and to refuse payment for doing right.
- Bess Clegg Simon's quiet daughter, a cotton batter who raises the foundling and waits for a sweetheart who believes a lie.
- Joshua Brookes A blunt, short-tempered chaplain who hides generosity behind scolding and quietly guides Jabez's schooling.
- Laurence Aspinall A spoiled cotton merchant's son who grows from a cruel schoolboy into a handsome, reckless rival for Augusta.
- Augusta Ashton The beautiful, romantic daughter of Jabez's master, who wants a gallant hero and not a plain, steady friend.
- Ellen Chadwick A kind, reserved young woman who admires Jabez in silence and hides her feelings behind duty.
- Ben Travis A big-hearted yeomanry officer and former schoolmate who becomes Jabez's loyal friend and protector.
How it ends (spoiler)
Laurence Aspinall, ruined by drink, debt and cruelty, shoots himself as a sheriff's officer approaches. Augusta, long separated from him and parted from her mother's house, is free. Ellen and her two boys have drowned at the launch of the Emma, and Jabez has mourned a faithful wife. In time he and Augusta find each other, marry, and live at Ardwick, while Ben Travis stays on as the firm's Co.
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Pytania o Manchesterczyk
What is The Manchester Man about?
It follows Jabez Clegg, a baby rescued from a flooded river in 1799, as he is raised by a tanner, schooled at a charity college, apprenticed to a manufacturer and rises in Manchester's trade.
Is The Manchester Man a true story?
It is a novel, but it uses real places, clergy and events such as Peterloo, and the author says some episodes were based on true incidents she knew, including a baby saved in a cradle.
Who is Joshua Brookes in The Manchester Man?
He is a real Manchester clergyman shown here as a blunt, quick-tempered chaplain with a kind heart, who baptizes Jabez, helps him enter school and keeps watching over him.
What is Peterloo in the book?
It is the 1819 meeting at St. Peter's Field in Manchester where soldiers and yeomanry charged a peaceful reform crowd. The novel shows how it touches Jabez and the families around him.
What is the main message of The Manchester Man?
That honesty, duty and mercy shape a life more than birth does. Jabez has no family name at first, but he earns respect through steady choices and by forgiving those who wrong him.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Banks, Isabella. The Manchester Man. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-manchester-man.
Banks, I. (2026). The Manchester man. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-manchester-man (Original work published 1876)
Banks, Isabella. The Manchester Man. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-manchester-man.
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note = {First published 1876}
}
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