Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)
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Elizabeth Gaskell was born on September 29, 1810 to a Unitarian clergyman, who was also a civil servant and journalist. Her mother died when she was young, and she was brought up by her aunt in Knutsford, a small village that was the prototype for Cranford, Hollingford and the setting for numerous mostra altro other short stories. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, a Unitarian clergyman in Manchester. She participated in his ministry and collaborated with him to write the poem Sketches among the Poor in 1837. Our Society at Cranford was the first two chapters of Cranford and it appeared in Dickens' Household Words in 1851. Dickens liked it so much that he pressed Gaskell for more episodes, and she produced eight more of them between 1852 and 1853. She also wrote My Lady Ludlow and Lois the Witch, a novella that concerns the Salem witch trials. Wives and Daughters ran in Cornhill from August 1864 to January 1866. The final installment was never written but the ending was known and the novel exists now virtually complete. The story centers on a series of relationships between family groups in Hollingford. Most critics agree that her greatest achievement is the short novel Cousin Phillis. Gaskell was also followed by controversy. In 1853, she offended many readers with Ruth, which explored seduction and illegitimacy that led the "fallen woman" into ostracism and inevitable prostitution. The novel presents the social conduct in a small community when tolerance and morality clash. Critics praised the novel's moral lessons but Gaskell's own congregation burned the book and it was banned in many libraries. In 1857, The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published. The biography was initially praised but angry protests came from some of the people it dealt with. Gaskell was against any biographical notice of her being written during her lifetime. After her death on November 12, 1865, her family refused to make family letters or biographical data available. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Elizabeth Gaskell
The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies) (Volume 1) (2001) 22 copie
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Novels [Mary Barton, Cranford, Ruth, North and South, etc.] (Book House) (2012) 20 copie
My Lady Ludlow and Other Tales 7 copie
The Life and works of Charlote Bronte and Her Sisters (Collected Works of Charlotte Bronte 7 volumes) (1872) 7 copie
[unidentified works] 5 copie
Right at last, and other tales 4 copie
Cranford 4 copie
The Lady Chillers: classic ghost and horror stories by women authors (15 complete stories by Victorian and Edwardian… (2014) 4 copie
The Collected Short Stories of Elizabeth Gaskell [Annotated] (Civitas Library Classics) (2012) 2 copie
The works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Volume 3, Novellas and shorter fiction II, Round the Sofa, and Tales from Household… (2017) 2 copie
Wives and Daughters 2 copie
Reading & Training - Life Skills : Elizabeth Gaskell : North and South [book + sound recording] (2017) — Writer — 2 copie
Mrs Gaskell"s works pocket edition Mary Barton, and Other Tales. Cranford, and Other Tales. Ruth, and Other Tales,… (1890) 2 copie
Norte y Sur 1 copia
The English Christmas 1 copia
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs. Gaskell-Volume 1: Including Three Novellas 'Lois the Witch,… (2012) 1 copia
(all) 1 copia
Cranford and Other Stories 1 copia
The Collected Works of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2015) 1 copia
Esposas e Hijas [DVD] 1 copia
Cranford by Mrs Gaskell 1 copia
Life in Manchester (1847) 1 copia
Elizabeth Gaskell 1 copia
Short stories. Selections^Four short stories / Elizabeth Gaskell ; introduced by Anna Walters 1 copia
Cranford, and Mary Barton, etc 1 copia
Cousin Phillis: To which are added: Lois the Witch, The crooked branch, Curious if true, Right at last, The grey woman, (1972) 1 copia
Cranford; and Moorland Cottage 1 copia
Cranford and other tales 1 copia
Hand in A Wisker Cranford 1 copia
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs. Gaskell-Volume 2: Including One Novel 'a Dark Night's… (2012) 1 copia
Gaskell, Elisabeth Archive 1 copia
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Supernatural Stories (tales of ghosts and mystery: The Grey Woman, Lois the Witch,… (2018) 1 copia
All the Year Round. Bound Volume of Issues 177 to 200 from September 13, 1862 to February 21, 1863 (1863) 1 copia
Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Warm You in Cold Weather: Little Women And Good Wives & The Cranford Chronicles (2012) 1 copia
Elizabeth Gaskell's Collected Works: Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, Wives and Daughters, and More! (26… (2014) 1 copia
Cranford and Mary Barton 1 copia
Martha Preston 1 copia
Gaskell Shorter Works 1 copia
The Shah's English Gardener 1 copia
Two Fragments Of Ghost Stories 1 copia
Disappearances 1 copia
Clopton House 1 copia
English Short Stories 1 copia
[No title] 1 copia
SYLVIA’S LOVERS 1 copia
All'ultimo momento 1 copia
Vita di Charlotte Brontë 1 copia
Le nozze di Manchester 1 copia
Silvia's Lovers 1 copia
Curioso, se fosse vero 1 copia
Cousin Phillis & Other Tales 1 copia
Works of Mrs. Gaskell 1 copia
Grey Woman and Other Tales 1 copia
Mi prima Filis novela 1 copia
North and South 1 copia
Ruth 1 copia
O Natal de Tempestades & Bonança 1 copia
Noord en Zuid 1 copia
La Clarissa 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Collaboratore — 146 copie
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume One (2016) — Collaboratore — 133 copie
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917 (2018) — Collaboratore — 90 copie
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 (2020) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 77 copie
The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories (The Connoisseur's Collections) (1900) — Collaboratore — 57 copie
The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers (2009) — Collaboratore — 48 copie
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection (Wives and Daughters / Cranford / North and South) (2014) — Original Books — 34 copie
The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies, (1967) — Collaboratore — 28 copie
Cranford: The Collection [Cranford & Return to Cranford TV series] (2008) — Original book — 27 copie
Regarding Jane Eyre: Writers Respond to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1997) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century (1983) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
Short Stories by Kate Chopin, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Olive Schreiner (1998) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
English short stories of the nineteenth century — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
- Altri nomi
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Stevenson, Elizabeth Cleghorn (birth name) - Data di nascita
- 1810-09-29
- Data di morte
- 1865-11-12
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Brook Street Chapel graveyard, Knutsford, Cheshire, England, UK
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Holybourne, Hampshire, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- heart attack
- Luogo di residenza
- Lindsay Row (now 93 Cheyne Walk)
Heathwaite, Heathside, Knutsford, Cheshire, England, UK
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Barford, Warwickshire, England, UK
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK (mostra tutto 7)
Plymouth Grove, Manchester, England, UK - Istruzione
- Avonbank School, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, UK
Barford House - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short story writer
biographer
ghost story writer - Relazioni
- Gaskell, Jane (great-great-great-grand-niece)
Stevenson, William (father)
Stevenson, John (brother)
Holland, Bryan T. (grandson)
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Discussioni
Group read: Curious, If True by Elizabeth Gaskell / The Lifted Veil by George Eliot in Virago Modern Classics (Gennaio 28)
January 2024: Elizabeth Gaskell in Monthly Author Reads (Gennaio 27)
Victorian Q2 Read-Along: North and South in Club Read 2022 (Settembre 2022)
Group Read, December 2021: North and South in 1001 Books to read before you die (Dicembre 2021)
Group Read, January 2017: Cranford in 1001 Books to read before you die (Febbraio 2017)
1816: Charlotte Brontë - Resources and General Discussion in Literary Centennials (Gennaio 2016)
July Group Read: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell in 2014 Category Challenge (Agosto 2014)
North and South, Chapters 27-52 (Spoiler Thread) in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Gennaio 2012)
North and South, Chapters 1-26 (Spoiler Thread) in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Dicembre 2011)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Non-Spoiler Thread) in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Dicembre 2011)
Anyone care to discuss, or read and discuss, 'Sylvia's Lovers' by Elizabeth Gaskell? in Girlybooks (Ottobre 2011)
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