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020			_a9780199538355
082			_a823.8 _bGAS
100			_aGaskell, Elizabeth
245			_aMary Barton
260			_bOxford University Press, _aOxford : _c2017
300			_axxxix, 437 p. ; _c20 cm.
365			_b620.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aOxford World's Classics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aSet 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 city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself: a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, she becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront her true feelings and allegiances.--BOOK JACKET. 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.
650			_aAmerican Literature
650			_aEngland Manchester
650			_aLabor unions Fiction
650			_aWorking class women
650			_aTrials Murder
650			_aLove stories
650			_aLanguages and Literatures
650			_aFathers and daughters
700			_aFoster, Shirley _eed.
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