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Editorial Note:

Mary Barton, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's first novel, was first published anonymously in 1848 by Chapman and Hall.

 

 

 

MARY BARTON:

A TALE OF MANCHESTER LIFE.

 

by

ELIZABETH GASKELL

 

 

"'How knowest thou,' may the distressed Novel-wright exclaim, 'thatI, here where I sit, am the Foolishest of existing mortals; that thismy Long-ear of a fictitious Biography shall not find one and theother, into whose still longer ears it may be the means, underProvidence, of instilling somewhat?' We answer, 'None knows, none cancertainly know: therefore, write on, worthy Brother, even as thoucanst, even as it is given thee.'"

CARLYLE.

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

   PREFACE.
I.   A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
II.   A MANCHESTER TEA-PARTY.
III.   JOHN BARTON'S GREAT TROUBLE.
IV.   OLD ALICE'S HISTORY.
V.   THE MILL ON FIRE—JEM WILSON TO THE RESCUE.
VI.   POVERTY AND DEATH.
VII.   JEM WILSON'S REPULSE.
VIII.   MARGARET'S DEBUT AS A PUBLIC SINGER.
IX.   BARTON'S LONDON EXPERIENCES.
X.   RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL.
XI.   MR. CARSON'S INTENTIONS REVEALED.
XII.   OLD ALICE'S BAIRN.
XIII.   A TRAVELLER'S TALES.
XIV.   JEM'S INTERVIEW WITH POOR ESTHER.
XV.   A VIOLENT MEETING BETWEEN THE RIVALS.
XVI.   MEETING BETWEEN MASTERS AND WORKMEN.
XVII.   BARTON'S NIGHT-ERRAND.
XVIII.   MURDER.
XIX.   JEM WILSON ARRESTED ON SUSPICION.
XX.   ...

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