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Title | Mary Barton | Height | 13 mm |
Author | Elizabeth Gaskell | Width | 2 mm |
ISBN-13 | 9780140434644 | Binding | PAPERBACK |
ISBN-10 | #014043464X | Spine Width | |
Publisher | Penguin Books | Pages | 464 |
Edition | Availability | Out Of Stock |


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Mary Barton
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
This is Elizabeth Gaskells 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 movi This is Elizabeth Gaskells 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.