num_pages: 416
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.
language: English
title: Mary Barton
titlecomplete: Mary Barton
genres: Historical, Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Romance, Classics, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 19518
places: Manchester, England, England
publisher: Indypublish.Com