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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.
Mary Barton is a British historical television series which originally aired on BBC 2 in 1964. It is based on the 1848 novel of the same title by Elizabeth Gaskell. [1]
Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was the first biography of Charlotte Brontë. In this biography, she wrote only of the moral, sophisticated things in Brontë's life; the rest she omitted, deciding certain, more salacious aspects were better kept hidden.
The story centers on haughty Margaret Hale, who learns to overcome her prejudices against the North in general and charismatic manufacturer John Thornton in particular. Gaskell would have preferred to call the novel Margaret Hale (as she had done in 1848 for her novel Mary Barton), but Dickens prevailed. He wrote in a 26 July 1854 letter that ...
The character of Esther, who becomes a prostitute in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton (1848) is an example of a fallen woman being used to illustrate the social and political divide between rich and poor in Victorian England. The novel is set in a large industrial town in the 1840s and it "gives an accurate and humane picture of working ...
The fictional Cranford is based on the small Cheshire town of Knutsford in which Elizabeth Gaskell grew up. She had already drawn on her childhood memories for an article published in America, "The Last Generation in England" (1849), and for the town of Duncombe which featured in her extended story "Mr. Harrison's Confessions" (1851).
In her varied incarnations, Mary is a powerful, deep, sustaining, loving, bold, sometimes scared, often complicated character. Two stand out: Mary who “climbs in” (or not) in "Thunder Road ...
Holly Barton, a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale; James Barton (Emmerdale), a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale; John Barton (Emmerdale), a fictional character in British soap Emmerdale; John Barton, a fictional character in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton; John Barton, a fictional ...