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North and South

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for tel..

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced b..

Doom of the Griffiths

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Among other traditions preserved relative to this part of the Welsh hero’s character, is the old family prophecy which gives title to this tale.  When Sir David Gam, “as black a traitor as if he ..

Round the Sofa

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Round the Sofa is an 1859 2-volume collection consisting of a novel with a story preface and five short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell.  The first volume consists of the novel My Lady Ludlow prefac..

The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The Leeds and Skipton railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbouring river of Wharfe.  Keighley station is on this line of railway, about a..

Half a Life-Time Ago

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Half a Life-Time Ago is a tender tale of romance and lost love that touches the heart. With ups and downs and trivialities of life, the work elucidates serious relationships and romance...

The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, one of the greatest cla..

Lizzie Leigh

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Lizzie Leigh and The Heart of John Middleton are examples of Gaskell's writing on the working classes of the industrial north of England, while the Well of Pen Morfa is set in rural North Wales. ..