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Gaskell's witty and poignant comedy of country town life A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, "Cranford" describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle- aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Rich with humor and filled with vividly memorable characters -- including the dignified Lady Glenmire and the duplicitous showman Signo...

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In the last few decades Elizabeth Gaskell has become a figure of growing importance in the field of Victorian literary studies. She produced work of great variety and scope in the course of a highly successful writing career that lasted for about twenty years from the mid-1840s to her unexpected death in 1865. The essays in this Companion draw on recent advances in biographical and bibliographical studies of Gaskell and cover the range of her ...

England in den Wirren der industriellen Revolution : Nachdem ihr Vater der Kirche Englands aus Gewissensgründen den Rücken gekehrt hat, ist die junge und behütet aufgewachsene Margaret Hale gezwungen, mit ihrer Familie vom idyllischen Süden in den industriell geprägten Norden des Landes zu übersiedeln. Sie freundet sich rasch mit dem gewerkschaftlich engagierten Weber Nicholas Higgins an und ist zutiefst schockiert ob des ständig schwelenden K...

England in den Wirren der industriellen Revolution : Nachdem ihr Vater der Kirche Englands aus Gewissensgründen den Rücken gekehrt hat, ist die junge und behütet aufgewachsene Margaret Hale gezwungen, mit ihrer Familie vom idyllischen Süden in den industriell geprägten Norden des Landes zu übersiedeln. Sie freundet sich rasch mit dem gewerkschaftlich engagierten Weber Nicholas Higgins an und ist zutiefst schockiert ob des ständig schwelenden K...

A sensitive and moving portrait of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s, Cranford recounts the events and activities in the lives of a group of spinsters and widows.

North and South is a novel that exposed Victorian inequalities. Margaret Hale a woman from the South of England moves to the industrialized North of England where she is shocked by the huge inequalities between the rich and the working class. This serves as a backdrop for a conflicted love story. Margaret finds herself falling in love with John Thornton, the owner of the local mill. But her concern for the Mill's striking workers complicates t...

Elizabeth Gaskell uses her novel Mary Barton to compare and contrast the rich and the working class. She links the plight of the working class to that of the plight of Victorian women at the hands of the men in their lives. A classic novel about love and redemption.

Ruth is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a fallen woman in Victorian times. Ruth Hilton is an young orphaned seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant and alone, is taken in by a minister and his sister. They conceal her single status under the pretense of widowhood in order to protect her child from the social stigma of illegitimacy. Ruth goes on to gain a respectable position in socie...

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