Mary Barton
Pocket Book – February 15, 2009
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · January 24, 2013
Elizabeth Gaskell uses her novel Mary Barton to compare and contrast the rich and the working class.
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- Who it’s for
- Gaskell’s classic pairs a close look at class and women’s lives with love and redemption.
- Genres
- 19th-Century English Fiction, The Classics, Historical Fiction
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, January 24, 2013
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Start with this bookAbout this book
Elizabeth Gaskell uses her novel Mary Barton to compare and contrast the rich and the working class. She links the plight of the working class to that of the plight of Victorian women at the hands of the men in their lives. A classic novel about love and redemption.
Class and Connection
Gaskell’s classic pairs a close look at class and women’s lives with love and redemption.
Come here for
- The contrast between rich and working-class Victorian life
- Women’s plight alongside questions of class and love
Expect
- Social concerns woven into a sustained novel
- A layered take on Victorian class and women’s lives
Where it sits
| 19th-Century English Fiction | 62% |
|---|---|
| Historical Fiction | 43% |
| The Classics | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Authors
- Elizabeth Gaskell, Shirley Foster
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- January 24, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- The Classics