a bit more palatable for gaskell, but- why need the heroine be so... perfect? but feel such- remorse? it's intolerably selfish of her. the guilt all those victorian girls must have felt

Quando venne pubblicato per la prima volta Mary Barton, Charles Dickens rimase molto colpito dallo stile di Elizabeth Gaskell tanto da chiederle di collaborare alla sua nuova rivista letteraria, “Household Words”. Era il 1850 e da allora tra i due iniziò una prolifica collaborazione. Il primo raccon

Tendenzialmente associo la Gaskell al periodo natalizio, specialmente testi brevi come questo, sarà per il fatto di essere inglese, o vittoriana, ma in realtà con lo spirito positivo e candido del Natale c'entra ben poco. Anche qui una fallen woman, e tutti i temi cari alla Gaskell, la discriminazio

Like Mary Barton, "Lizzie Leigh" is the story of a fallen woman. Although the title character is marginalized for most of the narrative, appearing only by way of other characters mentioning her and by the allusions to her as "the mother/the shadow," her reappearance by name that occurs in the last s

A heartwarming short story about the unconditional love of a mother for her child. It's clear to me now that Mrs. Gaskill was deeply passionate about what she wrote and also that she not only was a devote Christian but she also felt compassion towards those society would instinctively cast out. In t