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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Mary Barton Information
1,559 words, approx. 5 pages
 Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s and deals heavily with the difficulties faced by the Victorian lower... 
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 Studies in the Novel Glazed expression: Mary Barton, ghosts and glass.(Critical Essay)
12/22/2004: 10,283 words, approx. 34 pages I begin with some problematic sightseeing. In its 1855 survey of charitable activity in London, The Quarterly Review described the spectacle of freshly opened dark space brought to light in the recent street clearances: The reader may, perhaps, have seen the house... summary from source:
The Sunday Telegraph London Other Theatre The Alchemist Mary Barton Ornamental Happiness
09/17/2006: 1,068 words, approx. 4 pages The Alchemist Nicholas Hytner's production at the National, writes Christopher Tayler, goes to great lengths to wring the maximum number of laughs from Ben Jonson's comedy. There are sight gags involving John Prescott and - for political balance? - Joan Collins. Jacobean conmen...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by John Lucas
14,884 words, approx. 50 pages
In the following excerpt, Lucas attributes the flaws in Mary Barton to Gaskell's failure to deal honestly with the social conditions she was attempting to represent.
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Critical Essay by W. A. Craik
13,522 words, approx. 45 pages
In the essay that follows, Craik contends that although Gaskell's Mary Barton is concerned with issues of social reform, it avoids a didactic tone in order to emphasize realistic situations and characters.
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Critical Essay by Margaret Ganz
12,794 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following excerpt, Ganz discusses the authenticity of Gaskell's representation of working-class problems in Mary Barton.
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