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In Mary Barton, the eponymous heroine’s working-class father John Barton becomes a Chartist.Chartism (c. 1830s –1850s) was an English working-class political movement named after the so-called People’s Charter of 1838, a massively popular petition demanding reforms from Parliament that included a general right to vote for adult men whether or not they owned property; a right to run for Parliament whether or not the candidate owned property; and a salary for members of Parliament so ...
About the Title. The title Mary Barton refers to the main character Mary Barton. The novel charts the course of her life from a young age as she experiences the crushing poverty of 19th-century working-class life in Manchester, England, as well as the difficulties of love which transcend social class.
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.
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- 1848
Mary Barton Summary. When Mary Barton is 13, her aunt Esther disappears. Shortly after, her mother, Mrs. Barton, dies in childbirth along with the baby. Mary’s widowed father John Barton throws himself into labor organizing among Manchester’s workers. When Mary is 16, John decides she must work.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Discusses Gaskell as a woman writer in Victorian England. In the analysis of Mary Barton, Schor explores Gaskell’s use of a romantic plot and a marriage ...
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. John Barton is a.
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Mary Barton: Chapter 1. One May evening, workers from Manchester make an excursion to beautiful fields outside the city. During that excursion, resolute-looking John Barton and his weeping, pregnant wife, Mrs. Barton, run into friends, Mr. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, carrying their twin babies. Mr.
