Mary Barton

Elizabeth Gaskell

⏱ 8 minVictorian classic

A spirited Manchester working girl is courted by a steady mechanic and a mill-owner's careless son, and when the rich suitor is shot, she must save her true love from the gallows without betraying the real murderer, her own father. Gaskell's compassionate first novel.

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