Mary Barton
a tale of Manchester life
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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"Gaskell's shocking, moving and contemporary account of the corrosive effects of injustice and poverty."
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Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections in the hope of marrying Henry and escaping from the hard and bitter life that is the fate of the workers, who are resentfully dependent on the callous mill-owners for their livelihoods. But when Henry is shot dead in the street Jem becomes the prime suspect and Mary finds her loyalties tested to the limit
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Fiction, Trials (Murder), Fathers and daughters, Fathers and daughters in fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Poor families, Labor unions, Labor unions in fiction, Working class women, Working class women in fiction, Textile industry in fiction, Poor families in fiction, Textile industry, Working class families in fiction, Working class families, Women in fiction, Social life and customs, Working class in fiction, England in fiction, Working class, Women, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, In libraryPlaces
Manchester (England), England, ManchesterTimes
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Mary Barton (Penguin Popular Classics)
October 1998, Penguin Books
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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (English Library)
April 30, 1975, Penguin Classics
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