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Mary Barton, subtitulada "historia de vida manchesteriana", es la primera novela de la autora inglesa Elizabeth Gaskell, publicada en 1848. Se trata de una novela social ambientada en la ciudad de Manchester entre 1839 y 1842, narra las dificultades a las que se enfrenta la clase obrera victoriana.
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life was the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian working class.
La historia de la preciosa Mary Barton, obrera modista que creyó un día que su excepcional belleza podría salvarla de la miseria porque el rico heredero de una de las fábricas la cortejaba, pero solo para seducirla y abandonarla después.
Mary Barton, first novel by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, published in 1848. It is the story of a working-class family that descends into desperation during the depression of 1839. With its vivid description of squalid slums, Mary Barton helped awaken the national conscience.
It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England.
A través de la historia de Mary Barton y su familia, Elizabeth Gaskell retrata la pobreza, la explotación laboral y las desigualdades sociales de esa época. El conflicto central de la novela gira en torno a la elección de Mary entre el amor y la justicia.
10 de ago. de 1999 · Mary Barton, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's first novel, was first published anonymously in 1848 by Chapman and Hall.
