Elizabeth Gaskell
As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, attitudes about love, marriage, and gender roles began to undergo a radical shift. The five stories collected in this volume, written by literary luminaries such as Henry James, Walter Besant, and Thomas Hardy, expertly capture this period of transition.
3) Norte y Sur
Norte y Sur (North and South) es una novela inglesa escrita por Elizabeth Gaskell. Pertenece a la época victoriana y fue poco a poco terminada en un periodo de 22 entregas. Se publicaba semanalmente en la revista Household Words, dirigida por Charles Dickens, durante el periodo de septiembre de 1854 a enero de 1855.
La historia es relatada a inicios de la Revolución Industrial en Europa, misma época en que se inició
...4) Cranford
7) Mary Barton
8) Ruth
10) Cousin Phillis
11) My Lady Ludlow
The Life of Charlotte Brontë is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Brontë by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. The first edition was published in 1857 by Smith, Elder & Co.. A major source was the hundreds of letters sent by Brontë to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey.
Gaskell had to deal with rather sensitive issues, toning down some of her material: in the case of her description of the Clergy
...14) Lizzie Leigh
The melodramatic and tragic story of a cursed family, The Doom of the Griffiths is set in Wales and based loosely on the Welsh legend of Owain Glendwr. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives
...Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward. Through the example and guidance of her mother—who dotes on Edward constantly—and her mentor, Mrs. Buxton, Maggie learns that self-sacrifice is the key to living a fulfilled life. The precursor to and arguably the template for George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, this feminist masterpiece
...Popular nineteenth-century writer Elizabeth Gaskell packed her fiction with the kind of riveting social details that keep contemporary readers and fans of historical drama glued to the page. This collection of short stories offers a comprehensive introduction to her body of work, which rivaled Dickens' in terms of popularity at the height of her career.
20) The Poor Clare
The Poor Clare is a short story by English Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell. First serialised in three installments in 1856 Charles Dickens' popular magazine Household Words, The Poor Clare is a gothic ghost story about a young woman unwittingly cursed by her own grandmother. Squire Starkey, a recusant Jacobite, returns to Starkey Manor with his Irish wife and their son Patrick. Accompanying them
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