Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Wives and Daughters

If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book! Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one of the earliest novelists...

Mary Anderson and 14 more 27 hours 16 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Wives and Daughters (version 2)

Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at English life in the 1830s through the experiences of Molly Gibson, the...

Elizabeth Klett 25 hours 17 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South (version 3)

North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the...

MaryAnn 19 hours 3 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Ruth

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...

Cynthia Lyons 18 hours 41 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South

Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south,...

Ophelia Darcy and 46 more 18 hours 40 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South (version 2)

North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The story: the heroine, Margaret...

Kara Shallenberg and 10 more 18 hours 32 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Sylvia's Lovers

The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with...

Sonja and 10 more 17 hours 18 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Round the Sofa

Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South, Wives and...

NoelBadrian 16 hours 15 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mary Barton

Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s and deals heavily with the difficulties faced by the...

Lucy Burgoyne and 13 more 15 hours 57 minutes

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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

«Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life» was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuous year of political change, 1848 — only a few months after the Communist Manifesto...

Tony Foster 15 hours 40 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 1

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...

Marie Manis and 6 more 10 hours 18 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Short Stories (Household Words 1850-53)

Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Charles Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, from 1850 through to 1853 In addition to three serialized novels, Cranford, North and South, and My Lady Ludlow,...

Phil Benson 9 hours 57 minutes

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