Mary Barton
"The rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don''t know, they ought to know. We''re their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds"
Mary Barton, the heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell''s novel, is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow ...
"The rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don''t know, they ought to know. We''re their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds"
Mary Barton, the heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell''s novel, is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow ...
