Instructor Mary Barton Introduction Like Many N

NameInstructor CourseDate Mary BartonIntroductionLike many novels written during the Victorian era, Mary Barton is about the contemporary issues related to Britain during the industrialization period. Such issues include the different worlds between the ruling class and the working class, hardship and the quest for acceptance, violence and insecurity and the industrial revolution. The book is organized in two parts; the political and the social part. Mary Barton was influenced by the author’s personal life experiences and observations while living in the Victorian era. Elizabeth Gaskell was born in Lindsey Row, Chelsea, London, on 29 September 1810 to William Stevenson, a journalist, and Elizabeth Stevenson, a preacher. Her mother died when she was very young. She later married William Gaskell, a minister at the Cross Street Unitarian Chapel and settled in the city of Manchester. Her writing career started in 1845 after the death of her son William, who died of the scarlet fever. Writing the novel “Mary Barton” acted as a distraction from her grief. She died on 12 November 1865, having completed many works of literature. It is evident in the novel that the different social classes presented in the novel lacks an understanding of the problems