Mary Barton [electronic resource]
Gaskell, Elizabeth2011
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Mary Barton is young, kind, and beautiful—perhaps dangerously so. John Barton, her hearty and intelligent but grievously uneducated father who could never abide the gentlefolk, pours fierce love and courage into his family and work. When Mary's beautiful Aunt Esther disappears, her beauty is blamed: Not but what beauty is a sad snare. Mary Barton is young, kind, and beautiful—perhaps dangerously so. John Barton, her hearty and intelligent but grievously uneducated father who could never abide the gentlefolk, pours fierce love and courage into his family and work. When Mary's beautiful Aunt Esther disappears, her beauty is blamed: Not but what beauty is a sad snare.
Main title:
Mary Barton [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Gaskell
Author:
Gaskell, Elizabeth, AuthorStevenson, Juliet, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : AudioGO, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an acclaimed and prominent Victorian novelist, and a contemporary and friend of Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë, among others. Her writings reflect both her happy upbringing in the Cheshire countryside and her concern for the privations of the working classes of Manchester, where she spent most of her adult life. Among her most famous works are the novels Mary Barton and North and South, and her controversial biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë.
ISBN:
9780792776857
Language:
English
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BRN:
2789885
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