Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the nineteenth century's most significant novelists, was widely held to be the social conscience of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution.

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Mary Barton

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect.

MARY BARTON; ED. BY SHIRLEY FOSTER.

Olivia Kacar

Bonnie Parker

Presents the 1848 novel about Mary Barton, the daughter ofa Manchester mill worker and trade unionist who is forced toconsider her real allegiances and feelings when Jem Wilson, a man whose love she has rejected, is accused of killing Henry Carson, the son of one of the mill owners, who has caught Mary's eye.

Kwan Ann Tan

Zoë Perkins 

Rose Stanley

A Tale of Manchester Life

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Story Eater

Moray Lyle McIntosh

Mary, daughter of a trade unionist, is attracted to Henry Carson, son of a mill owner, but when Henry is murdered and Jem Wilson, Mary's admirer, becomes the chief suspect, she must reexamine her loyalties.

Maryam Hasan

Greta V. 

Joshua Line

Monirah

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