by Elizabeth Gaskell · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430530
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«Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life» is Elizabeth Gaskell's social novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (496 pages, in English).
Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, set in Victorian-era Manchester. It tells the story of Mary Barton, daughter of a worker involved in a murder, torn between her affection for Jem Wilson and the interest of the factory owner's son, amid conflict between workers and employers.
1975 edition in the English Library series, with introduction, notes, and appendices by Stephen Gill. The novel was originally published in 1848.
For readers of Victorian classics and stories about industrial England.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Her only biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was controversial and significant in establishing the Brontë family's lasting fame. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851–1853), North and South (1854–1855), and Wives and Daughters (1864–1866), all of which have been adapted for television by the BBC.
