# Mary Barton

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell has 162,076 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell](https://musael.com/books/authors/elizabeth-cleghorn-gaskell.md) (1810–1865)
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 162,076
- **Reading time:** 10 h 48 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 17 h 26 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 13 h 30 min | 28 days |
| 250 wpm | 10 h 48 min | 22 days |
| 300 wpm | 9 h | 19 days |

## Read or listen

Mary Barton is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2153
- LibriVox audiobook (15 h 57 min): https://librivox.org/mary-barton-by-elizabeth-cleghorn-gaskell/

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 162,076
- Chapters: 38
- Dialogue: 37% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2153 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2607078
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1103204W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2153

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/mary-barton