Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: W.F. Howes Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 661
ISBN-13: 9781471232596
Subjects: Fiction; Social conditions; Manchester (England) - Social conditions - Fiction
Description: Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both. She decides to reject her lover Jem in the hope of marrying rich mill-owner's son Henry Carson. She soon finds herself hopelessly torn between them.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: United Kngdom : Chapman and Hall, 1848.