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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life was the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian working class. Plot summary.
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- 1848
Mary Barton, first novel by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, published in 1848. It is the story of a working-class family that descends into desperation during the depression of 1839. With its vivid description of squalid slums, Mary Barton helped awaken the national conscience.
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- 1848
Mary Barton study guide contains a biography of Elizabeth Gaskell, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
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 MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. Oh! 'tis hard, 'tis hard to be working. The whole of the live-long day, When all the neighbours about one. Are off to their jaunts and play.
- A MANCHESTER TEA-PARTY. Polly, put the kettle on, And let's have tea! And we'll all have tea. "Here we are, wife; didst thou think thou'd lost us?"
- JOHN BARTON'S GREAT TROUBLE. But when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed—she had. Another morn than ours!
- OLD ALICE'S HISTORY. To envy nought beneath the ample sky; To mourn no evil deed, no hour mis-spent; And, like a living violet, silently. Return in sweets to Heaven what goodness lent,
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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester is the 1848 debut novel of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. It tells of the Victorian working class in Manchester, England, from 1839 to 1842, focusing on the story of the eponymous young female heroine.
