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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

  • Wives and Daughters | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists. She was the author of The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a much-acclaimed and sometimes-reviled biography of her friend and peer.

    Wives and Daughters revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of...

  • A Dark Night's Work | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! She chose to avoid melodrama and concentrate on psychological realism to produce a moving story of people meeting and parting across class divides.

  • Ruth | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a ‘fallen woman’, a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The title of the novel refers to the main character Ruth Hilton, an orphaned young...

  • Mary Barton | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. The story is set in the English city of Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s and deals heavily with the difficulties faced by the Victorian lower class.

    The novel begins in Manchester, where we are introduced to the...

  • My Lady Ludlow | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    This novella by the acclaimed Elizabeth Gaskell follows the reminiscences and life of aristocratic Lady Ludlow, told through the eyes of one of her charges, the young Margaret Dawson. Lady Ludlow epitomizes the unwillingness of the old English gentry to accept the progression of social reform...

  • The Moorland Cottage | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to her wish to marry Frank and live for herself. Maggie's plight for independence shows the change in women's role, which started to take place during that time. But...

  • Cousin Phillis | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    Cousin Phillis is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his second cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence. Most critics agree that Cousin Phillis is...

  • Round the Sofa | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    A collection of short stories. Round the Sofa, a short story which she uses as a device to stitch together six previously published stories into a single work. It introduces us to a set of characters who take turns to recount stories to one another during their weekly soirée. My Lady Ludlow...

  • Life of Charlotte Brontë - Volume 2 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    Charlotte Brontë was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, one of the greatest classics of all times. Just two years after Charlotte’s death, her friend Elizabeth Gaskell wrote...

  • Curious, if True | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    CURIOUS, IF TRUE: Strange Tales is a collection of five dark Victorian tales of suspense, horror, mood and mystery by Elizabeth Gaskell. Includes "The Old Nurse's Story," "The Poor Clare," "Lois The Witch," "The Grey Woman," and "Curious, If True."

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