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Elizabeth Gaskell wrote Mary Barton when she moved to Manchester in 1832. It was her first novel
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Pre 1914 Prose Coursework - Mary Barton A tale of Manchester Life Elizabeth Gaskell wrote Mary Barton when she moved to Manchester in 1832. It was her first novel and it was published in 1948. It's based on the trade difficulties in the "hungry 40's". The words she wrote were very good evidence as she lived in Manchester and knew what it was like. At the time it was very strange for a young woman to write a novel about the lives of ordinary poor people and a working class heroine in an industrial situation. Her husband William Gaskell was a minister in a Unitarian church and many mill owners went to the church. They looked down on her as she wrote about things they didn't want to hear but her husband encouraged her to write it. She wrote it to firstly get over the death of her son and there are...
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