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Mary Barton / Elizabeth Gaskell.

By: Gaskell, Elizabeth.
Publisher: England : Penguin Books, c1994Description: vi, 372 pages ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0140621024.Subject(s): Working class families--Fiction | Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction | Fathers and daughters--Fiction | Trials (Murder)--Fiction | Manchester (England)--Fiction | Political fiction | Domestic fiction | Love storiesDDC classification: D G212 1994 Summary: "A working-class girl longs for the security of marriage to a factory owner -- but tragically, her heart belongs to someone as impoverished as herself. Set in Manchester at the height of the Industrial Revolution, Mary Barton offers a poignant view of the injustice of the industrial class system. The novel influenced Dickens, Carlyle, and other writers and helped pave the way for labor and reform movements"-- Provided by publisher.
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"A working-class girl longs for the security of marriage to a factory owner -- but tragically, her heart belongs to someone as impoverished as herself. Set in Manchester at the height of the Industrial Revolution, Mary Barton offers a poignant view of the injustice of the industrial class system. The novel influenced Dickens, Carlyle, and other writers and helped pave the way for labor and reform movements"-- Provided by publisher.

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