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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson) - găsˈkəl, 1810–65, English novelist. When she was still an infant her mother died, and she was brought up by an aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire, the background for several of her novels of provincial life. In 1832 she married William Gaskell, a Unitarian minister. They settled in Manchester, and she lived a quiet, small-town life


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    Elizabeth Gaskell » Read Now

    by Gerald De Witt Sanders. 270 pgs.

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    Mary Barton » Read Now

    by Elizabeth Gaskell, Edgar Wright. 493 pgs.

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    This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and...
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    The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Vol. I » Read Now

    by E. C. Gaskell. 292 pgs.

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    ...VILLETTE," c. BY E. C. GASKELL, AUTHOR OF "MARY BARTON...sisters -- Deaths of Maria and Elizabeth Bronte, 51...YEAR OF HER AGE, AND OF ELIZABETH BRONTE , HER SISTER ...
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    Cranford » Read Now

    by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Porges Watson. 208 pgs.

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    In this witty and poignant comedy of early-Victorian life in a country town, Elizabeth Gaskell describes the uneventful lives of the lady-like inhabitants so as to offer an ironic commentary on the diverse experiences of men and women. This edition has detailed notes and a new introduction which...
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    Sylvia's Lovers » Read Now

    by Elizabeth Gaskell, Andrew Sanders. 534 pgs.

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    Some Appointed Work to Do: Women and Vocation in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell » Read Now

    by Robin B. Colby. 120 pgs.

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    Elizabeth Gaskell's work and life are being rediscovered against a backdrop of Victorian middle-class women's experience by many feminist scholars. Viewed in this century as conventional and conservative, Gaskell may instead be regarded as a radical for her time, because she challenged widely-held...
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    Domesticity, Imperialism and Emigration in the Victorian Novel (Chap. One "Storm Cloud over England and Blue Skies in Canada Industrialization, Empire, and the Pastoral in Gaskell") » Read Now

    by Diana C. Archibald. 214 pgs.

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    During the nineteenth century, as hundreds of thousands of British citizens left England for the New Worlds, hearth and home were physically moved from the heart of the empire to its very outskirts. In Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel, Diana Archibald explores how such...
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    The Literary Detective: 100 Puzzles in Classic Fiction ("What Kind of Murderer Is John Barton?" begins on p. 78) » Read Now

    by John Sutherland. 749 pgs.

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    ...This omnibus volume of Sutherland's collections of literary puzzles raises questions readers often ask. By addressing real world questions he brings literary criticism into...
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    A Victorian Album: Some Lady Novelists of the Period ("Elizabeth Gaskell" begins on p. 95) » Read Now

    by Lucy Poate Stebbins. 201 pgs.

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    ...writers, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Margaret...incorporated in her adult work. Elizabeth Gaskells biography has never been written...writers...
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    Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities ("Lost in an Ancient South: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Rhetoric of Latitudes" begins on p. 75) » Read Now

    by Roberto M. Dainotto. 178 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Since the 1840s, when Victorian England emerged into the modern era and industrial cities became the new cultural centers, regionalist literature has posited itself as an aesthetic alternative to nationalist culture. Yet what differentiates regionalism's claims of authenticity, derived from blood...

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