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This book offers a range of perspectives on Elizabeth Gaskell and adaptation.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
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Mara Barbuni
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) e una delle piu celebri scrittrici dell'eta vittoriana. Attraverso i tanti riferimenti, talvolta tradotti per la prima volta in italiano, ricercati nelle pagine dei suoi romanzi e…
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Alison Chapman
Alison Chapman introduces and discusses the patterns of critical attention that Gaskell’s work has attracted across the past 150 years. Beginning with contemporary press and critical reviews, and treatments by…
Angus Easson
Features Elizabeth Gaskell’s work. This work brings together her journalism, her shorter fiction, which was published in various collections during her lifetime, her early personal writing, including a diary written…
Jan Dreler
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut fur Anglistik), course: Mid-Victorian Social Problem Novels, 9…
Vincenzo Longo
Il volume si incentra sulla rivalutazione di un classico vittoriano di Elizabeth Gaskell "North and South" attraverso un'analisi multi-livellare, dallo studio topologico del setting, agli aspetti sociologicamente e antropologicamente rilevanti…
Elizabeth Gaskell
English author Elizabeth Gaskell's social novel North and South was published in 1854 and 1855. It is one of her best-known books, along with Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford…
A classic of English biography as well as the portrait of a very remarkable woman and an eminently distinguished literary figure.
First published in serial form in Household Words in 1854-1855 and in volume form in 1855 –P. [vii].
Cranford is populated by a loyal circle of female friends whose idiosyncrasies and camaraderie form the fabric of this novel. Includes an essay about the subtly subversive nature of Cranford…
Mary Barton rejects her childhood friend Jem’s affections in the hope of marrying Henry, mill-owner’s charming son, and escaping from the hard and bitter life that is the fate of…
"A Dark Night's Work" is a novella written with the aid of Elizabeth Gaskell, a prominent Victorian-era novelist. This gripping narrative explores subject matters of morality, guilt, and redemption. The…
On the other hand, this is also the story of one friend trying simultaneously to grieve and memorialise another.The Hero Classics series: Meditations The Prophet A Room of One’s Own…
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Elizabeth Gaskell was a British author during the Victorian era, and her novels are notable for detailed descriptions of the different classes of society in 19th century Britain.
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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Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly’s life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There…
Features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. This title shows how, forced to move from the country to an industrial northern town…
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This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors…
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell is equally well known as Mrs Gaskell. When her mother died, she was three months old and she was sent to live in Knutsford, Cheshire with her Aunt…
According to many critics, this novel is Elizabeth Gaskell’s masterpiece. Set in a provincial English town, it is a subtle representation of historical change explored in human terms.
Poor Theresa! Every day she more and more bitterly rued her ill-starred marriage. Often and often she cried to herself, when she was alone in the dead of the night…
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell nee Stevenson (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known…
