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Author Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.

Title Mary Barton / Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Shirley Foster.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Edition New ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxxix, 437 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxi).
Summary Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect. - ;'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.'. Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the c.
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Subject Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters.
Manchester (England) -- Fiction.
Working class women -- Fiction.
Working class women.
Textile industry -- Fiction.
Textile industry.
Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder)
Poor families -- Fiction.
Poor families.
Labor unions -- Fiction.
Labor unions.
Genre/Form Political fiction.
Political fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Electronic books.
Love stories.
Subject Love triangles.
Added Author Foster, Shirley.
Other Form: Print version: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865. Mary Barton. New ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 9780192805621 0192805622 (DLC) 2005021616 (OCoLC)61178173
ISBN 9780191517198 (electronic book)
0191517194 (electronic book)