Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)
Autor/a de North and South
Sobre l'autor
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'n més 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'n menys
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Obres de Elizabeth Gaskell
The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies) (Volume 1) (2001) 22 exemplars
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Novels [Mary Barton, Cranford, Ruth, North and South, etc.] (Book House) (2012) 20 exemplars
My Lady Ludlow and Other Tales 7 exemplars
The Life and works of Charlote Bronte and Her Sisters (Collected Works of Charlotte Bronte 7 volumes) (1872) 7 exemplars
[unidentified works] 5 exemplars
Right at last, and other tales 4 exemplars
Cranford 4 exemplars
The Lady Chillers: classic ghost and horror stories by women authors (15 complete stories by Victorian and Edwardian… (2014) 4 exemplars
The works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Volume 3, Novellas and shorter fiction II, Round the Sofa, and Tales from Household… (2017) 2 exemplars
Reading & Training - Life Skills : Elizabeth Gaskell : North and South [book + sound recording] (2017) — Writer — 2 exemplars
The Cage at Cranford and Other Stories 2 exemplars
Wives and Daughters 2 exemplars
The Collected Short Stories of Elizabeth Gaskell [Annotated] (Civitas Library Classics) (2012) 2 exemplars
Antología de relatos románticos tormentosos (Clásicos ilustrados) (Spanish Edition) (2022) 2 exemplars
Mrs Gaskell"s works pocket edition Mary Barton, and Other Tales. Cranford, and Other Tales. Ruth, and Other Tales,… (1890) 2 exemplars
Cranford; and Moorland Cottage 1 exemplars
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs. Gaskell-Volume 2: Including One Novel 'a Dark Night's… (2012) 1 exemplars
(all) 1 exemplars
Life in Manchester (1847) 1 exemplars
LibriVox Christmas Short Works Collection 2010 1 exemplars
LibriVox Christmas Short Works Collection 2007 1 exemplars
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs. Gaskell-Volume 1: Including Three Novellas 'Lois the Witch,… (2012) 1 exemplars
The English Christmas 1 exemplars
Hand in A Wisker Cranford 1 exemplars
Cranford ... Edited by Norman Hepple 1 exemplars
Libbie Marsh's three eras, and other tales 1 exemplars
Cranford by Mrs Gaskell 1 exemplars
The Collected Works of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2015) 1 exemplars
Cousin Phillis: To which are added: Lois the Witch, The crooked branch, Curious if true, Right at last, The grey woman, (1972) 1 exemplars
Cranford and other tales 1 exemplars
Elizabeth Gaskell 1 exemplars
Norte y Sur 1 exemplars
Cranford, and Mary Barton, etc 1 exemplars
El matrimonio de Manchester (texto bilingüe) 1 exemplars
Gaskell, Elisabeth Archive 1 exemplars
Short stories. Selections^Four short stories / Elizabeth Gaskell ; introduced by Anna Walters 1 exemplars
Esposas e Hijas [DVD] 1 exemplars
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Supernatural Stories (tales of ghosts and mystery: The Grey Woman, Lois the Witch,… (2018) 1 exemplars
All the Year Round. Bound Volume of Issues 177 to 200 from September 13, 1862 to February 21, 1863 (1863) 1 exemplars
LibriVox Christmas Short Works Collection 2016 1 exemplars
Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Warm You in Cold Weather: Little Women And Good Wives & The Cranford Chronicles (2012) 1 exemplars
Elizabeth Gaskell's Collected Works: Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, Wives and Daughters, and More! (26… (2014) 1 exemplars
Mary Burton, Wives and Daughters #, 1 exemplars
Cranford and Mary Barton 1 exemplars
Martha Preston 1 exemplars
Gaskell Shorter Works 1 exemplars
The Shah's English Gardener 1 exemplars
Two Fragments Of Ghost Stories 1 exemplars
Disappearances 1 exemplars
Clopton House 1 exemplars
English Short Stories 1 exemplars
[No title] 1 exemplars
SYLVIA’S LOVERS 1 exemplars
[Penguin English Library North and South (The Penguin English Library)] [By: Gaskell, Elizabeth] [May, 2012] 1 exemplars
All'ultimo momento 1 exemplars
Vita di Charlotte Brontë 1 exemplars
Le nozze di Manchester 1 exemplars
Silvia's Lovers 1 exemplars
Curioso, se fosse vero 1 exemplars
Cousin Phillis & Other Tales 1 exemplars
Works of Mrs. Gaskell 1 exemplars
Grey Woman and Other Tales 1 exemplars
Mi prima Filis novela 1 exemplars
North and South 1 exemplars
Ruth 1 exemplars
Infância e Amores de Margaret Brown 1 exemplars
O Natal de Tempestades & Bonança 1 exemplars
Noord en Zuid 1 exemplars
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Works 1 exemplars
La Clarissa 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology (1991) — Col·laborador — 172 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Col·laborador — 145 exemplars
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume One (2016) — Col·laborador — 133 exemplars
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917 (2018) — Col·laborador — 89 exemplars
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 (2020) — Col·laborador — 83 exemplars
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 77 exemplars
The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories (The Connoisseur's Collections) (1900) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers (2009) — Col·laborador — 48 exemplars
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Col·laborador — 42 exemplars
The Book of the Dead: Thirteen Classic Tales of the Supernatural (1986) — Col·laborador — 35 exemplars
The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection (Wives and Daughters / Cranford / North and South) (2014) — Original Books — 34 exemplars
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror (2019) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies, (1967) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Cranford: The Collection [Cranford & Return to Cranford TV series] (2008) — Original book — 27 exemplars
Regarding Jane Eyre: Writers Respond to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1997) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century (1983) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Selected English Short Stories: XIX & XX Centuries (Third Series) (1921) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Short Stories by Kate Chopin, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Olive Schreiner (1998) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
English short stories of the nineteenth century — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
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- Nom oficial
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
- Altres noms
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Stevenson, Elizabeth Cleghorn (birth name) - Data de naixement
- 1810-09-29
- Data de defunció
- 1865-11-12
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Brook Street Chapel graveyard, Knutsford, Cheshire, England, UK
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- England, UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Holybourne, Hampshire, England, UK
- Causa de la mort
- heart attack
- Llocs de residència
- 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-les totes 7)
Plymouth Grove, Manchester, England, UK - Educació
- Avonbank School, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, UK
Barford House - Professions
- novelist
short story writer
biographer
ghost story writer - Relacions
- Gaskell, Jane (great-great-great-grand-niece)
Stevenson, William (father)
Stevenson, John (brother)
Holland, Bryan T. (grandson)
Membres
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Group read: Curious, If True by Elizabeth Gaskell / The Lifted Veil by George Eliot a Virago Modern Classics (gener 28)
January 2024: Elizabeth Gaskell a Monthly Author Reads (gener 27)
Victorian Q2 Read-Along: North and South a Club Read 2022 (setembre 2022)
Group Read, December 2021: North and South a 1001 Books to read before you die (desembre 2021)
Group Read, January 2017: Cranford a 1001 Books to read before you die (febrer 2017)
1816: Charlotte Brontë - Resources and General Discussion a Literary Centennials (gener 2016)
July Group Read: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell a 2014 Category Challenge (agost 2014)
North and South, Chapters 27-52 (Spoiler Thread) a 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (gener 2012)
North and South, Chapters 1-26 (Spoiler Thread) a 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (desembre 2011)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Non-Spoiler Thread) a 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (desembre 2011)
Anyone care to discuss, or read and discuss, 'Sylvia's Lovers' by Elizabeth Gaskell? a Girlybooks (octubre 2011)
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- Obres
- 220
- També de
- 106
- Membres
- 26,675
- Popularitat
- #779
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 734
- ISBN
- 1,597
- Llengües
- 21
- Preferit
- 175