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  • North and South

    Margaret's safe existence is turned upside down when she has to move to the grim northern town of Milton. Not only does she have her eyes opened by the poverty and hardship she encounters there, but she is thrown into confusion by stern factory owner John Thornton - whose treatment of his workers brings them into fierce opposition.As men and women, workers and masters come into violent conflict, ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Supernatural Stories (tales of ghosts and mystery: The Grey Woman, Lois the Witch, Disappearances, The Crooked Branch...) (Halloween Stories)

    Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her first novel, "Mary Barton", was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her remaining novels are "Cranford" (1853), "North and South" (1854), and "Wives and Daughters" (1865). Gaskell became popular for her writing, especially her ghost stories, aided by Charles Dickens, who published her work ... Read more

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  • North and South

    “Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.”When her clergyman father decides to leave the Church, Margaret Hale is whisked away from her tranquil life in the rural south and brought to the gritty industrial town of Milton-Northern. Befriending the ... Read more

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  • North and South

    Margaret's safe existence is turned upside down when she has to move to the grim northern town of Milton. Not only does she have her eyes opened by the poverty and hardship she encounters there, but she is thrown into confusion by stern factory owner John Thornton - whose treatment of his workers brings them into fierce opposition. As men and women, workers and masters come into violent conflict, ... Read more

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  • Cranford

    "Cranford" is a timeless novel written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and first published in 1851-1853 in serialized form in a literary magazine. Set in the fictional town of Cranford, the story provides a delightful and charming portrayal of the lives and experiences of the town's predominantly female inhabitants. Gaskell skillfully weaves together a collection of episodic tales to create a vivid ... Read more

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  • Cranford

    Cranford was first serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine Household Words between 1851 and 1853. The structureless nature of the stories, and the fact that Gaskell was busy writing her novel Ruth at the time the Cranford shorts were being published, suggests that she didn't initially plan for Cranford to be a cohesive novel.The short vignettes follow the activities of the society in the fictional ... Read more

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  • North And South, By Elizabeth Gaskell

    Elizabeth Gaskells North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, the daughter of a local priest in Hampshire, whose father decides to leave his country church after a serious crisis of faith. All the events that follow happen in the fictional industrial English town named Milton to which the Hale family has moved. Thus, part of the narrative focuses on the juxtaposition between industrial areas ... Read more

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  • Cranford

    Gaskell's best-known novel, the subject of a recent movie starring Dame Judi Dench and Simon Woods. According to Wikipedia: "Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ( 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 for her biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of ... Read more

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  • North And South

    Upon their arrival in the fictional town of Milton from their comfortable life in the rural South, Margaret Hale and her parents are struck by the harsh reality of the industrial revolution. When Margaret becomes sympathetic to the suffering of the town’s mill workers and their families, she develops a resolute sense of social justice that puts her at odds with the mill’s owner, John Thorton ... Read more

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  • Wives and Daughters

    Wives and Daughters was Mrs Gaskell's last novel, and was not quite finished at her death. Francis Greenwood, then editor of the Cornhill Magazine, provided 'Concluding Remarks' based on Mrs Gaskells's comments to her daughter Meta on how she intended the book to end.The book was serialised in the Cornhill Magazine August 1864 to January 1866, and first published in England by Smith Elder and Co. ... Read more

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  • Wives and Daughters

    Secrets and scandals steer a young woman's life as she comes of age and finds love in Victorian England.Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson has grown up under the watchful eye of her widowed father, the doctor Mr. Gibson. After one of his apprentices develops an interest in Molly, Mr. Gibson feels the only way to protect her is to send her to live with the Hamley family.With his daughter away, Gibson ... Read more

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  • Wives and Daughters

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    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 widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's presence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling step-sister, Molly finds her situation hard to accept. Intertwined with the ... Read more

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