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Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. When she loses her job and home, he offers her comfort and shelter, only to cruelly desert her soon after. Nearly dead with grief and shame, Ruth is offered t ...Show more
Sylvia's Lovers by Francis (EDT) Elizabeth Cleghorn; O'Gorman Gaskell
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
But, for all her screen, she felt a pair of eyes were fixed upon her with a glow of admiration deepening their honest brightness. Somehow, look in what direction she would, she caught the glance of those eyes before she could see anything else. So she played with her apron-strings, and tried not to feel ...Show more
Tales of Mystery and the Macabre by GASKELL Elizabeth
Category: Accessories | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'. Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848) but ...Show more
The Cranford Chronicles by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Based on three Elizabeth Gaskell novels, "The Cranford Chronicles" follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire market town, during one extraordinary year. In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards t ...Show more
The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bront was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane Eyre the subtitle An Autobiography. It recounts Charlotte Bront 's life from her isolated childhood, through ...Show more
The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Hero Classics) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: Classics | Series: Hero Classics Ser.
Part of the Hero Classicsseries "As far as she could see, her life was ordained to be lonely, and she must her nature to her life, and, if possible, bring the two into harmony. When she could employ herself in fiction, all was comparatively well. The characters were her companions in the quiet hours, wh ...Show more
The Moorland Cottage, the Original Classic Novel - (Elizabeth Gaskell Masterpiece Collection) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Category: Classics
If you take the turn to the left, after you pass the lyke-gate at Combehurst Church, you will come to the wooden bridge over the brook; keep along the field-path which mounts higher and higher, and, in half a mile or so, you will be in a breezy upland field, almost large enough to be called a down, wher ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father a ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, "Wives and Daughters" centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries a new stepsister, Cynthia, enters Molly's quiet life. Loveable but worldly and troubling, Cynthia's arrival alters Molly's d ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Wives and Daughters" by Elizabeth Gaskell. "Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways..." Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course b ...Show more