Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. When she loses her job and home, he...
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'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes...
When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness...
'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another. ' Patrick Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering...
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Based on the 1854 fifth edition, Elizabeth Gaskell's (1810-1865) first novel is accompanied here by explanatory annotations. 'Contexts' includes letters as well as Gaskell's...
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From the author of "North and South" and "Mary Barton", Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford" is a standalone publication of Elizabeth Gaskell's best-known work, with a critical...
The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty live in a village where women rule and men usually tend to get in the way. Their days revolve around card games, tea, thriftiness,...
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Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings,...
In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of...
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This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Wives and Daughters" by Elizabeth Gaskell. "Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways... " Seventeen-year-old...
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'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel...
As far as she could see, her life was ordained to be lonely, and she must subdue her nature to her life, and, if possible, bring the two into harmony. When she could employ herself...
Elizabeth Gaskell's remarkable first novel, "Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" portrays a love that defies the rigid boundaries of class with tragic consequences. This "Penguin...
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'He's spoilt my life, - he's spoilt it for as long as iver I live on this earth' The compelling story of an ordinary girl's tragic passion for a man who disappears,...
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The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically...
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Based on three Elizabeth Gaskell novels, The Cranford Chronicles follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire market town,...
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'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it. ' Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation...
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Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth...
Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. ? At its core are family relationships - father,...
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. '...
Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition of North and South is presented with extra material and notes to the text...
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Forced to move from the rural tranquillity of southern England to the turbulent northern mill town of Milton, Margaret Hale takes an instant dislike to the dirt and noise that seems...
The first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist, in which Gaskell creates the "Bronte myth"...
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Margaret Hale is wrenched from her beloved rural idyll of Helstone and moved with her family to the industrial northern town of Milton, with its grime and all the ugliness of urban...
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