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elizabeth gaskell
1810 – 1865, english
Cranford
Now available in an elegant hardcover
edition, Elizabeth Gaskell’s timeless
portrait of an English country town is by
turns affectionate, moving, and darkly
satirical.
304 pp. 978-0-14-144254-9 $20.00
Cranford
Edited with an Introduction by
Patricia Ingham
An affectionately ironic and understated
depiction of an early Victorian country
town, Cranford captures the transition
from old values to new.
304 pp. 978-0-14-143988-4 $12.00
Gothic Tales
Edited by Laura Kranzler
In these nine strange and wonderful tales,
Gaskell—best known for books about
middle-class life in country villages—
used spine-tingling, supernatural elements
to explore human frailties and the
dualities in everyday life.
416 pp. 978-0-14-043741-6 $15.00
The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Elisabeth Jay
Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell drew on
her friendship with the author of Jane
Eyre, Shirley, and Villette to write this
compelling psychological portrait of
Brontë, whose controversial works belied
the reclusive life she led.
544 pp. 978-0-14-043493-4 $16.00
Mary Barton
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
MacDonald Daly
A powerful depiction of industrial strife
and class conflict in Manchester in the
1840s, Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel won
widespread attention and established her
reputation as a writer concerned with
social and political issues.
464 pp. 978-0-14-043464-4 $10.00
elizabeth gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell was born in London in 1810, but she spent her formative
years in Cheshire, Stratford-upon-Avon, and the north of England. In 1832 she
married the Reverend William Gaskell. As well as leading a busy domestic life
as minister’s wife and mother of four daughters, she worked among the poor,
traveled frequently, and wrote. After her first success, Mary Barton (1848), she
began writing for Dickens’s magazine, Household Words, to which she contributed
fiction for the next thirteen years, notably an industrial novel, North and South
(1855). Dickens discovered her resilient strength of character when trying to
impose his views on her as editor. Gaskell’s later works reveal that she was
continuing to develop her writing in new literary directions when she died
suddenly in November 1865.
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