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Mary Barton : a tale of Manchester life / Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Macdonald Daly Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865

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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
Subjects
Working class women - Fiction.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) - Fiction.; Manchester (England) - Fiction.
Summary
Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both. She rashly decides to reject her lover Jem, a struggling engineer, in the hope of marrying the rich mill-owner's son Henry Carson and securing a safe future. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself hopelessly torn between them. She also discovers an unpleasant truth - one that could bring tragedy upon everyone, and threatens to destroy her.
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