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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life was the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian working class. Plot summary.
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- 1848
- 1848
- Novel
Mary Barton, first novel by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, published in 1848. It is the story of a working-class family that descends into desperation during the depression of 1839. With its vivid description of squalid slums, Mary Barton helped awaken the national conscience.
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- 1848
10 de ago. de 1999 · Title: Mary Barton. A Tale of Manchester Life. Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. Release Date: August 10, 1999 [eBook #2153] This revision released December 9, 2013. Language: English. Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARY BARTON*** E-text prepared by Les Bowler, St. Ives, Dorset,
3.74. 20,051 ratings1,320 reviews. 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 through love and marriage.
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25 de jan. de 2018 · Mary Barton é o primeiro livro de Elizabeth Gaskell, mais conhecida pelo renomado Norte e Sul. Mais do que obra de estreia da autora, o livro é um dos pioneiros da época em fazer da protagonista a heroína do enredo. Mary é filha de um operário e sonha em ascender socialmente por meio do casamento.
Elizabeth Gaskell, like other Victorians, places the responsibility for values of compassion and purity on the maternal figure, and with the absence of such influence in the Barton home, John...
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