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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.
Elizabeth Gaskell, Shirley Foster (Editor) 3.74. 20,197 ratings1,344 reviews. 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 ...
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.
Aug 10, 1999 · Mary Barton, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's first novel, was first published anonymously in 1848 by Chapman and Hall.
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.
Mary Barton Summary. When Mary Barton is 13, her aunt Esther disappears. Shortly after, her mother, Mrs. Barton, dies in childbirth along with the baby. Mary’s widowed father John Barton throws himself into labor organizing among Manchester’s workers. When Mary is 16, John decides she must work.
In the analysis of Mary Barton, Schor explores Gaskell’s use of a romantic plot and a marriage-bound heroine to critique an authoritarian political and social structure. Spencer, Jane....
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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.
Apr 1, 1997 · 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...
