15 uitgaven gevonden in Elizabeth Gaskell
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A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, CRANFORD describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster...
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argaret'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
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Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to...
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The humour in ‘Cranford’ (1853) is so sly it is can be difficult to believe it was written over 150 years ago...
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Anna, a German mill-owner‘s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as well...
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"Cranford"depicts the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of a small village - their petty snobberies and appetite for gossip, and their loyal support for each other in times of...
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In the town of Monkshaven during the Napoleonic Wars, Sylvia's beloved, Charley, is pressed onto a whaling ship and then reported dead, and when Sylvia marries her cousin, Philip, she finds...
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Elizabeth Gaskell's much loved novel of small town rural life, introduced by Dr Josie Billington and with illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson.
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Published in 1848, MARY BARTON was the first novel of Elizabeth Gaskell, later to become celebrated as the author of CRANFORD, MARY BARTON - a better book than CRANFORD - was written after...
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"Ruth Hilton, an orphan and dressmaker's assistant, is seduced and heartlessly deserted by the wealthy Henry Bellingham. Mrs Gaskell tells the story of Ruth's love for her child; her new...
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Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited...
