Bibliograph

Mary Barton, a tale of Manchester life, Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Macdonald Daly

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Mary Barton, a tale of Manchester life, Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Macdonald Daly

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Mary Barton

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

38591049

Responsibility statement

Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Macdonald Daly

Series statement

Penguin classics

Sub title

a tale of Manchester life

Summary

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. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. 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 ?hungry forties? as personal tragedy

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