Elizabeth Gaskell was born on 29 September 1810 in London. She was brought up in Knutsford, Cheshire by her aunt after her mother died when she was two years old. In 1832 she married William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her...

Elizabeth Gaskell: Die Tat einer Nacht. Roman»A Dark Night's Work«. Erstdruck: London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. Hier nach der deutschen Übersetzung von 1865, Leipzig, Verlag von Ernst Julius Günther.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von...

Elizabeth Gaskell: Die Tat einer Nacht. Roman»A Dark Night's Work«. Erstdruck: London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. Hier nach der deutschen Übersetzung von 1865, Leipzig, Verlag von Ernst Julius Günther.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von...

Das Hörbuchereignis des Jahres England inmitten der industriellen Revolution: Die ebenso selbstbewusste wie prinzipientreue Pfarrerstochter Margaret Hale zieht mit ihren Eltern vom ländlichen Süden in eine aufstrebende Metropole im...

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...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon...

Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on...

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...

Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bront¿1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell and collated with the manuscript and the...

'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters...

Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers...

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