Philosophy · 1881
Mary Barton
a tale of Manchester life
€160
One copy available · ships from the Netherlands within two working days
- First published
- 1848
- This copy printed
- 1881
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Cloth
- Condition
- Fine — Close to as issued; only the lightest signs of age.
- Pages
- 420
About this work
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Mary's dilemma, and the moving portrayal of her father, the embittered and courageous activist John Barton, Mary Barton (1848) powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the 'hungry forties' as personal tragedy. In its social and political setting, it looks towards Elizabeth Gaskell's great novels of the industrial revolution, in particular North and South.
