by Elizabeth Gaskell · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140434644
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«Mary Barton: a tale of Manchester life» is Elizabeth Gaskell's social novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (464 pages, in English).
In 1840s Manchester, Mary Barton, daughter of a trade union activist, rejects the worker Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the factory owner's son. When Henry is murdered, Jem becomes the prime suspect and Mary faces a dilemma that reflects the class tensions of the Victorian era.
It was Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, originally published in 1848. The 1997 Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and notes by MacDonald Daly.
For readers of Victorian fiction and English classics: a work that attracted the interest of Charles Dickens and anticipates North and South.
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.
