Gaskell Elizabeth: 328 books

A departure from the stories Elizabeth Gaskell wrote for Charles Dickens’s Household Words magazine*, The Poor Clare* is a dark, gothic novella of thwarted love and a family curse that vividly illustrates the social tensions of Victorian England. The purposeful slaying of lonely Bridget’s...

The Life of Charlotte Bronte, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics* *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 Sep 1810 – 12 Nov 1865), was a British novelist and short story writer of the Victorian era. Gaskell’s works are picturesque portraits of live of dwellers of various layers and levels of society, from the poorest to the richest. The most know work of her are Cranford...

«Gaskell mima a sus personajes y les da alas para crecer, sin que ello signifique que sea complaciente con sus debilidades. Al contrario, Cranford sobresale por la fiereza con que critica algunas de las lacras de la sociedad que retrata.» Pepa Montero «En esta deliciosa novela, cuando se...

This is the second and final volume of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell’s 1957 biography of Charlotte “Brontë, Charlotte Brontë - A Monograph”. The first biography of this seminal literary figure, this volume provides a fantastic and unique insight into her life and mind, making it a must-read for...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 Sep 1810 – 12 Nov 1865), was a British novelist and short story writer of the Victorian era. Gaskell’s works are picturesque portraits of live of dwellers of various layers and levels of society, from the poorest to the richest. The most know work of her are Cranford...

'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 great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Brontë, and, having been invited...

Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Brontë, and, having been invited to write the official life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted...

North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indicates a major theme of the book: the contrast...

Dopo la morte di Charlotte Brontë, nel 1855, suo padre esorta Elizabeth Gaskell, già acclamata autrice di Cranford, a scrivere la biografia della figlia. Elizabeth, che era stata una cara amica di Charlotte, parte così sulle tracce di quanti l’avevano conosciuta viaggiando a lungo in Inghilterra...

Publiée en feuilleton dans The Cornhill Magazine, de novembre 1863 à février 1864, cette longue nouvelle permit sans doute à Elizabeth Gaskell de reprendre un peu son souffle littéraire entre les deux très longs romans que sont Sylvia’s Lovers (1863), une tragique histoire d’amour et de...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ne 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 for her biography of Charlotte Bront. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of...

“The Shah’s English Gardener” is a short dark novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, the writer of the Victorian age.

Le Héros du fossoyeur Elizabeth Gaskell, romancière britannique (1810-1865) Ce livre numérique présente «Le Héros du fossoyeur», de Elizabeth Gaskell, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet...