Title Mary Barton / Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Shirley Foster.

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Edition	New ed.
Description	1 online resource (xxxix, 437 pages).
Series	Oxford world's classics
	Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxi).
Note	Print version record.
Summary	Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect. - ;'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.'. Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the c.
Subject	Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
	Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
	Manchester (England) -- Fiction.
	Working class women -- Fiction.
	Textile industry -- Fiction.
	Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
	Poor families -- Fiction.
	Labor unions -- Fiction.
	Political fiction.
	Domestic fiction.
	Love stories.
	FICTION -- Romance -- General.
	Fathers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst00921890
	Labor unions. (OCoLC)fst00990260
	Poor families. (OCoLC)fst01071206
	Textile industry. (OCoLC)fst01148828
	Trials (Murder) (OCoLC)fst01156368
	Triangles (Interpersonal relations) (OCoLC)fst01156439
	Working class women. (OCoLC)fst01180569
	England -- Manchester. (OCoLC)fst01212972
Genre/Form	Political fiction.
	Electronic books.
	Domestic fiction.
	Love stories.
	Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Political fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726702
Added Author	Foster, Shirley.
Other Form:	Print version: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865. Mary Barton. New ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 9780192805621 0192805622 (DLC) 2005021616 (OCoLC)61178173
ISBN	9780191517198 (electronic bk.)
	0191517194 (electronic bk.)

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