Mary Barton

ISBN: 9780141199726
Physical Description: print 497 pages ; 20 cm.
Publisher: London : Penguin English Library, c2012.

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 1810-1865 (Author).

Summary: "Set in Manchester in the 1840s, Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself--a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, who becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront her true feelings and allegiances."