Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781518622519)

Vendor: Elizabeth Gaskell
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Format: Paperback
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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life

$12.40

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life

$12.40
Format: Paperback
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Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian lower class. It is subtitled 'A Tale of Manchester Life'. It is a widely acclaimed and popular novel, which, in parts, is 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 1839-42, it paints a very powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England as experienced by a young woman. This is an unabridged edition.

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN-10: 1518622518
ISBN-13: 9781518622519
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2015
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
By Elizabeth Gaskell
By Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) was a English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Gaskell was also the first to write a biography of Charlotte Bronte, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, which was published in 1857. Her works include the novels Mary Barton (1848), Cranford (1851-53), Ruth (1853), North and South (1854-55), Sylvia's Lovers (1863) and Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story (1865).

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