In the hungry 1840s of industrial Manchester, working-class seamstress Mary Barton is caught between a wealthy mill-owner's son and a poor young mechanic when a murder throws her family into crisis and lays bare the bitter divide between masters and workers.
Books mentioned in Mary Barton (2)
Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle: “In choosing their delegates, too, the operatives had had more regard to their brains, and power of speech, than to their wardrobes; they might have read the opinions of that worthy Professor Teufelsdreck, in Sartor Resartus, to judge from the dilapidated coats and trousers, which yet clothed men of parts and of power.”
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “One tried to read "Emerson's Essays," and fell asleep in the attempt; the other was turning over a parcel of new music”