A working-class girl longs for the security of marriage to a factory owner - but tragically, her heart belongs to someone as impoverished as herself. Set in Manchester at the height of the Industrial Revolution, Mary Barton offers a poignant view of the injustice of the industrial class system. The novel influenced Dickens, Carlyle, and other writers and helped pave the way for labor and reform movements.
| ISBN: | 9780486812496 |
| Publication date: | 25th August 2017 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications an imprint of Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 464 pages |
| Series: | Dover Thrift Editions |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |