Mary Barton /
Elizabeth Gaskell.
- England : Penguin Books, c1994.
- vi, 372 pages ; 21 cm.
"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"--
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Working class families--Fiction. Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction. Fathers and daughters--Fiction. Trials (Murder)--Fiction. Manchester (England)--Fiction. Political fiction. Domestic fiction. Love stories.