num_pages: 390
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: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Classic Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 19508
places: Manchester, England, England
publisher: Everyman's Library