Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life by Elizabeth Gaskell

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life

Litterature

Elizabeth Gaskell with Stephen Gill

487 pages first pub 1848 (editions)

fiction classics literary slow-paced
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‘Do they want to know why?’ Asked Fraser’s magazine in 1848, ‘Then let them read Mary Barton’. While it is certainly possible to consult Mary Barton as a social document depicting Manchester in the ‘hungry forties’ with appalling precision, the no...

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