This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England.
- ISBN10 1781665400
- ISBN13 9781781665404
- Publish Date 18 June 2012 (first published 1 May 1961)
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Andrews UK Limited
- Imprint AUK Academic and Technical
- Format eBook
- Pages 475
- Language English