Mary Barton Paperback - 1997
by Elizabeth Gaskell; MacDonald Daly (Editor)
The plot turns on Mary's romantic choice between the son of a rich industrialist and a working-class lover. The class-divide and the widening gap between rich and poor are central themes in a novel originally named after Mary Barton's father, John Barton.
Summary
‘O Jem, her father won’t listen to me, and it’s you must save Mary! You’re like a brother to her’
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner’s son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Mary’s dilemma, and the moving portrayal of her father, the embittered and courageous activist John Barton, Mary Barton (1848) powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the ‘hungry forties’ as personal tragedy. In its social and political setting, it looks towards Elizabeth Gaskell’s great novels of the industrial revolution, in particular North and South.
In his introduction Maconald Daly discusses Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel as a pioneering book that made public the great division between rich and poor – a theme that inspired much of her finest work.
From the rear cover
The plot turns on Mary's romantic choice between Henry Carson, the son of a rich industrialist, and her working class lover Jem Wilson, and the rivalries between them. The class-divide and the widening gap between rich and poor are central themes in a novel originally named after Mary's father, John Barton.
Details
- Title Mary Barton
- Author Elizabeth Gaskell; MacDonald Daly (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition International Ed
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, NEW YORK
- Date 1997-04-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780140434644 / 014043464X
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.14 x 0.85 in (19.76 x 13.06 x 2.16 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Trials (Murder)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98107431
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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