Mary Barton

A Tale of Manchester Life

Elizabeth Gaskell, MacDonald Daly, MacDonald Daly , MacDonald Daly

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Penguin Classics
31 October 1996

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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.

By: Elizabeth Gaskell
Notes by: MacDonald Daly
Introduction by: MacDonald Daly
Edited by: MacDonald Daly
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9780140434644
ISBN 10: 014043464X
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 31 October 1996
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 65) was born in London, but grew up in the north of England. In 1832 she married the Rev. William Gaskell. Published in Dickens' Household Works and a lifelong friend of Charlotte Bronte, Gaskell's finest novel is North and South, also published by Penguin. Macdonald Daly is Lecturer in Modern Literature at Nottingham University. He has also edited DH Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Kangaroo for Penguin Classics.

Reviews for Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life

The revolution urged by Mary Barton is a revolution in the emotional and mental dispositions of individuals towards each other a thoroughly idealist enterprise. Macdonald Daly