Cousin Phillis and Other Stories
Elizabeth Gaskell and Heather Glen (ed.)
‘I see her now – cousin Phillis. The westering sun shone full upon her, and made a slanting stream of light into the room within.’ Elizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of ...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Elizabeth Gaskell and Angus Easson (ed.)
It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Brontë Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one ...
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Mary Barton
Elizabeth Gaskell and Shirley Foster (ed.)
‘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 - Mary Barton ...
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North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson (ed.), and Sally Shuttleworth
`She tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.’ North and ...
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Sylvia's Lovers (2 ed.)
Elizabeth Gaskell and Francis O'Gorman (ed.)
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, Sylvia’s Lovers (1863) is ...
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Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell and Angus Easson (ed.)
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell’s last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her ...
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