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# Mary Barton (Wordsworth Classics)

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Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes are dramatized through personal struggles. John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience with his socialist duty, risking his life and liberty in the process. His daughter Mary is caught between two lovers, from opposing classes - worker and manufacturer. And at the heart of the narrative lies a murder which implicates them all. Mary Barton was published in 1848, at a time of great social ferment in Europe, and it reflects its revolutionary moment through an English lens. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote her first novel about the world in which she lived - Manchester at the height of the industrial revolution. As the wife of a Unitarian minister she was solidly middle-class; but she also had close contact with the working classes around her, sympathised with them, and represented their extreme distresses in her fiction. She is radical in taking on their dialect, imagining the realities of their lives, and placing a working woman at the centre of her fiction. If to our eyes her vision remains limited, it was an honest vision, for which she was much criticised in her own time, by her own class.

Review: What a read!! - Am thoroughly enjoyed this novel. Arrived quickly and intact.
Review: Five Stars - Wonderful book for any Victorian age reader

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #126,317 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3,381 in Classic Literature & Fiction |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 177 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What a read!!
*by J***E on February 5, 2025*

Am thoroughly enjoyed this novel. Arrived quickly and intact.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by S***H on August 16, 2015*

Wonderful book for any Victorian age reader

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Today and Yesterday… Connected
*by P***2 on April 19, 2024*

Great read about the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. Shows how far we have come in 200 years. Not perfectly written but its writing flaws are vastly exceeded by its historical accuracy.

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