- Fiction, Trials (Murder), Fathers and daughters, Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
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.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and bleak.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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- First published
- 1848
- Pages
- 420
- Publisher
- Oxford university press, BiblioBazaar, The Folio Society
- Editions
- 70
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781775416463
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“"There are some fields near Manchester, well known to the inhabitants as 'Green Heys Fields', through which runs a public footpath to a little village about two miles distant."”
A British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. ([Source][1]) [1]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell
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