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Mary Barton Volume 2

Author
Elizabeth Gaskell
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
6 hours 46 minutes
ISBN
9781802562644
Published
13 January 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Industrialization
  • working class
  • Manchester
  • social justice
  • love
  • crime
  • inequality
  • redemption
  • hardships
  • Victorian society

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In Elizabeth Gaskell's "Mary Barton Volume 2," the complex tapestry of working-class struggles in Victorian Manchester unfolds with greater intensity. Mary Barton, striving to clear her beloved Jem Wilson's name from false accusations, becomes entangled in a web of societal injustices. Amidst love and loss, Mary must navigate a world rife with economic disparity and moral challenges. Gaskell vividly portrays the indomitable human spirit, weaving a poignant narrative of redemption and hope.

Author

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) widened the Victorian novel's moral imagination. Published by Dickens in Household Words and admired by contemporaries from Ruskin to George Eliot, she wrote fiction that refused to look away from social suffering — child labour, class division, the hidden cost of industrial progress — while never losing warmth or narrative pleasure.

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