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Mary Barton: a tale of Manchester life

Mary Barton: a tale of Manchester life

Historical Fiction Family Fiction

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Authors: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Mary Barton is the daughter of a good and upright trade unionist, John Barton. She attracts two men, Jem Wilson, a fellow worker, and Henry Carson, son of her father's employer. When the union men decide upon murder John Barton is the chosen assassin of Henry Carson. Suspicion falls, however, on Jem, and Mary is torn between her lover and her father.