Elizabeth Gaskell

Reproduction of the original: The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell

Reproduction of the original: Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell

Reproduction of the original: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Reproduction of the original: Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell

Reproduction of the original: Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell

Reproduction of the original: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

After her parents pass away, young Rosamond is raised by her nurse in the ancestral home of her aunt, Miss Furnivall. One day the two uncover an exceptionally beautiful old portrait? A relative, distant or close? And is that the strange sound of a distant organ, or simply the wind?

First published in 1848, "Mary Barton" is a moving account of poverty and the working class by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. Set in the early 1840s in the English city of Manchester, Gaskell's first novel follows the young and beautiful Mary Barton, daughter of a factory worker, who is eventually caught up in the class struggle of her time. She attracts the attention of a wealthy mill-owner's son, Henry Carson, although she soon discovers her love for the poor, hard-working Jem Wilson. When a brutal shooting leaves a man dead, Mary must decide if she wishes to help in Jem's defense, as he is accused of the murder, and she is certain she knows the identity of the true culprit. Gaskell weaves Mary's story of romance and hope amidst a moving account of the grinding poverty of England's working class, who often risked much with little regard or appreciation from the wealthy. Gaskell makes a compelling case for increased communication between workers and employers, greater equality between the rich and the poor, and the importance of the possibility of redemption and forgiveness. "Mary Barton" makes it clear why Gaskell is often called Great Britain's social conscience of the Industrial Revolution. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

First published in eight installments from 1851 to 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford", one of her most popular works, is a gentle and humorous picture of an English country village. Based on the village of Gaskell's childhood, the novel is narrated by a young woman visiting the town who describes the genteel poverty of the town's female inhabitants and centers on the lives of two middle-aged spinster sisters, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah. The ladies work hard to conserve their appearances, habits, and social standards of propriety even in their reduced circumstances. Told in a series of graceful and loosely related sketches, the residents of Cranford are challenged when the poor and socially awkward Captain Brown moves to town with his two daughters. He rejects their rules of politeness and openly discusses his poverty and difficulties. Many of the novel's tales concern the love lives, tragedies, and family dramas of the small town's colorful characters. In a changing and modernizing world, the endearing stories and sympathetic struggles of the villagers of Cranford are captured in this compassionate and hopeful portrayal of small-town English life. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Elizabeth Gaskell lyckas i sin mest framgångsrika roman Småstadsliv i Cranford teckna ett rörande och humoristiskt porträtt av den lilla småstaden Cranford och dess invånare. Här ryms romantik, lögner och svek. Cranford är en stad styrd av kvinnor och det är dessa som står i händelsernas centrum. Gaskells roman Cranford ligger till grund för TV-serien med samma som lockat nya läsare till denna pärla. I originalöversättning av Karin Jensen Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) växte upp i småstaden Knutsford som är förlaga till den fiktiva staden Cranford. Hon gifte sig med en pastor och var vän med bland andra Charles Dickens och Charlotte Brontë. Elizabeth Gaskell skrev Brontës första biografi 1857, förutom de romaner, noveller och spökhistorier hon publicerade. -

Bogatyj fabrikant s promyshlennogo severa Anglii Dzhon Tornton i blestjasche obrazovannaja doch skromnogo svjaschennika s juga Margaret Khejl voznenavideli drug druga s pervogo vzgljada. Kto Dzhon v glazakh devushki? Nevezhestvennyj nuvorish, schitajuschij, chto vse v etom mire prodaetsja i pokupaetsja. A kto dlja nego Margaret? Zanoschivaja kisejnaja baryshnja, slishkom mnogoe o sebe vozomnivshaja, - osobenno esli uchest, chto u ee ottsa net ni grosha. Odnako ne zrja govorjat, chto ot nenavisti do ljubvi - odin shag, - protivostojanie molodykh ljudej, ne ustupajuschikh drug drugu umom, volej i kharakterom, postepenno prevraschaet ikh vzaimnuju neprijazn v kuda bolee teploe chuvstvo. Chuvstvo, v kotorom, i Margaret, i Dzhon ne smejut priznatsja dazhe samim sebe...

Widely believed to be her masterpiece, Elizabeth Gaskell's "Wives and Daughters" was originally published serially in "Cornhill Magazine" between August 1864 and January 1866. The work, which was nearly finished at the time of Gaskell's death in 1865, was completed by Frederick Greenwood. The novel's heroine is Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed country doctor in a small town in England. Molly, lonely and motherless, is befriended by the Hamley family, who are landed gentry and therefore above Molly's station, as the daughter of a professional. After returning home to her father, Molly finds that he has remarried. While her new stepmother is petty and greedy, in sharp contrast to Molly's warmth, kindness and innocence, Molly finds a friend and confidant in her new stepsister Cynthia. "Wives and Daughters," a classic 19th century romantic novel that follows the daily lives and romantic entanglements of Molly, Cynthia, and their family and friends; is an insightful examination of the constraints imposed by society between individuals of professional versus aristocratic social classes. In turns both heartbreaking and comic, Gaskell's novel will linger with readers long past the final page. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes an introduction by Adolphus W. Ward.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A rich, comic and illuminating portrait of life in a small town, Cranford has moved and entertained readers for generations. This edition features illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, and an introduction by Dr Josie Billington, a specialist in Victorian literature. The women of the small country town of Cranford live in genteel poverty, resolutely refusing to embrace change, while the dark clouds of urbanisation and the advance of the railway hover threateningly on the horizon. In their simple, well-ordered lives they face emotional dilemmas and upheavals, small in the scale of the ever-shifting world, but affectionately portrayed by Elizabeth Gaskell with all the weight and consequence of a grand drama.

"I had always felt a deep sympathy with the care-worn men, who looked as if doomed to struggle through their lives in strange alternations between work and want..." -Elizabeth Gaskell

Can't get enough of nineteenth-century British romance? Lovers of books like Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights should give Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters a try. This tale follows the romantic ups and downs of Molly Gibson, a doctor's daughter who lives in a small English village and is trying desperately to find the right husband.

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in an acrimonious strike. Against this backdrop of social unrest, the relationship between the two is tumultuous, and it takes further upheaval and tragedy for them to see each other in a different light. First serialized in Dickens's magazine Household Words in the same period as Hard Times, North and South shares its famous counterpart's concern with the inequality and hardship generated by the Industrial Revolution in northern England, while at the same time creating one of the nineteenth century's most memorable and engaging female protagonists in Margaret Hale.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, n e Stevenson (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Gaskell was also the first to write a biography of Charlotte Bronte, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, which was published in 1857.