Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel...
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Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect. - ;'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.'. Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the c
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix]-xxxi)
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Elizabeth Gaskell; MARY BARTON; Appendix A: A Rough Draft of Mary Barton; Appendix B: Gaskell's Outline of the Novel's Conclusion; Appendix C: William Gaskell's Two Lectures on the Lancashire Dialect; Explanatory Notes;
