An edition of Mary Barton: a tale of Manchester life (1848)

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An edition of Mary Barton: a tale of Manchester life (1848)

Mary Barton

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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 through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England.

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A.A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
390

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Subjects

Fiction Trials (Murder) Fathers and daughters Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Poor families Labor unions Working class women Textile industry Working class families Social life and customs Working class Women open_syllabus_project Fathers and daughters, fiction England, fiction Fiction, political Fiction, romance, general British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) Fiction, historical English fiction Manners and customs Philosophy, modern Fiction, historical, general Mary Barton (Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn) Gaskell, elizabeth cleghorn , 1810-1865 Working class families--fiction Triangles (interpersonal relations)--fiction Fathers and daughters--fiction Trials (murder)--fiction Pr4710 .m3 2008 823/.8

People

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865)

Places

Manchester (England) England Manchester

Times

19th century

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Mary Barton: a tale of Manchester life
2008, Vintage Books
in English
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Mary Barton (Penguin Popular Classics)
October 1998, Penguin Books
in Spanish
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Mary Barton
1996, J. M. Dent, Charles E. Tuttle
in English
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Mary Barton
1994, A.A. Knopf
Hardcover in English
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Mary Barton: a tale of Manchester life
1975, Penguin Books
in English
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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (English Library)
April 30, 1975, Penguin Classics
in English
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Mary Barton
May 1, 1961, Dutton Adult
Hardcover
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Mary Barton.
1958, Norton
in English
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Mary Barton
1906, The Century co.
in English
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Mary Barton: a tale of Manchester life.
1848, Chapman and Hall
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
New York
Series
Everyman's library
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4710 .M3 1994, PR4710.M3 1994

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
390

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1078475M
ISBN 10
0679434941
ISBN 13
9780679434948
LCCN
94001750
OCLC/WorldCat
29844835
LibraryThing
43852
Goodreads
749015

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1103204W

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Work Description

Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Mary's dilemma, and the moving portrayal of her father, the embittered and courageous activist John Barton, Mary Barton (1848) powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the 'hungry forties' as personal tragedy. In its social and political setting, it looks towards Elizabeth Gaskell's great novels of the industrial revolution, in particular North and South.

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