Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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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 - Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2

Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, one of the greatest classics of all...

Julie VW and 4 more 9 hours 16 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 - Grey Woman

A «Bluebeard» story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill her as well. (Summary by Jane Greensmith)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Cranford

Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. The...

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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 - 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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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 - 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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Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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