Mary Barton
480 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1848
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ISBN: 9780192805621
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 20 April 2006
Description
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later throughlove and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England.