Mary Barton [Christmas Summary Classics]

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference

• Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
• ISBN: 1230000034647
• Publisher: Zhingoora Books
• Publication: November 30, 2012
• Language: English

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Mary Barton
"Mary Barton," although not Mrs. Gaskell's first attempt at authorship, was her first literary success; and although her later writings revealed a gain in skill, subtlety and humour, none of them equalled "Mary Barton" in dramatic intensity and fervent sincerity. This passionate tale of the sorrows of the Manchester poor, given to the world anonymously in the year 1848, was greeted with a storm of mingled approval and disapproval. It was praised by Carlyle and Landor, but some critics attacked it fiercely as a slander on the Manchester manufacturers, and there were admirers who complained that it was too heartrending. The controversy has long since died down, but the book holds a permanent place in literature as a vivid revelation of a dark and painful phase of English life in the middle of the last century.