false 54620 51 '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 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. 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. 2887963 1848 Mary Barton (Oxford World's Classics) total:676|5:109|4:251|3:229|2:64|1:23| 676 2387 1230 101 3 3 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 12:27:33 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 12:31:57 -0700 2007 Mary Barton is a wonderful failure of a novel, in all of the classic Victorian ways–the love plot is overwrought, the ending is melodramatic, the moralizing is far too heavy, and the epigraphs are obnoxious. But, somehow, in the middle of all those problems, Elizabeth Gaskell manages to capture pe...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 09:10:56 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 11:24:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 17:21:23 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 11:12:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 17:14:11 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 13:48:28 -0800 2008
Gaskell wrote at the same time...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 06 15:39:36 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 08:29:11 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 15:39:36 -0700 2009 Dickens and the social-change authors is apparent, and Gaskell's own interest in social change, accurate portray...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 21:56:08 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 15:50:36 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 16:48:04 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 16:51:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 00:10:43 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 00:18:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 12:42:08 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 12:56:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 19:52:27 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 19:59:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Oct 01 13:31:29 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 17:31:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 07 12:12:11 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 12:14:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 18:27:20 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 18:27:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 30 17:24:38 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 21 06:51:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 19 08:24:56 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 28 08:42:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun May 04 18:03:08 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 10 14:05:02 -0800 2008 Pride and Prejudice just before Mary Barton...well actually during. P&P is so much lighter and livelier and better edited, but I can see why Gaskell and Austin are compared. On one hand, Gaskell seems a bit freer in her thinking (workers end up treated better after the political killing ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 22 10:05:15 -0800 2007 Wed Jul 29 12:46:13 -0700 2009
I have to confess that I was slightly disappointed with Mary Barton Maybe my expectations were too high and this was, after all, a first try by the author. But donâ€...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 19 20:49:46 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 04 23:32:42 -0800 2008
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