Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton
- Copyright: © Wordsworth Editions Limited
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
- Dimensions: 13 х 20 cm
- Pages: 415
- Cover: softcover
- First published: 1848
- This edition published: 2012