Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell.
Series: Everyman's library
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780679434948
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Working class women -- Fiction; Textile industry -- Fiction; Trials (Murder) -- Fiction; Labor unions -- Fiction; Poor families -- Fiction; Manchester (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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 through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.