Mary Barton (Timeless Classics) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781725943315 - August 20, 2018
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Mary Barton (Timeless Classics)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Mary Barton (Timeless Classics)

The novel begins in Manchester, where we are introduced to the Bartons and the Wilsons, two working-class families. John Barton is a questioner of the distribution of wealth and the relations between rich and poor. Soon his wife dies-he blames it on her grief over the disappearance of her sister Esther. Having already lost his son Tom at a young age, Barton is left to raise his daughter, Mary, alone and now falls into depression and begins to involve himself in the Chartist, trade-union movement. Chapter 1 takes place in countryside where Moss Side is now. Mary takes up work at a dressmaker's (her father having objected to her working in a factory) and becomes subject to the affections of hard-working Jem Wilson and Harry Carson, son of a wealthy mill owner. She fondly hopes, by marrying Carson, to secure a comfortable life for herself and her father, but immediately after refusing Jem's offer of marriage she realises that she truly loves him. She therefore decides to evade Carson, planning to show her feelings to Jem in the course of time. Jem believes her decision to be final, though this does not change his feelings for her.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 20, 2018
ISBN13 9781725943315
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 560
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 29 mm   ·   739 g
Language English  
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