Mary Barton

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Eduard Hau and Luke Fildes. A Manchester mill-worker's daughter, a murdered master's son and a father driven into the Chartist movement by hunger. Gaskell wrote it after her own baby died, to have something to do, and the mill-owners of Manchester never forgave her for it. It was among the first English novels to take the industria...