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Wives and Daughters. NOVEL by: Elizabeth Gaskell (World's Classics)
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth's Christmas Coloring Book: A Personalized Name Coloring Book Celebrating the Christmas Holiday
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Cranford. By: Elizabeth Gaskell: Novel (World's Classics)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Cranford is one of the better-known novels of the 19th-century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published, irregularly, in eight instalments, between December 1851 and May 1853, in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. It was then published, with minor revision, in book form in 1853.The first instalment (in Household Words), which became the novel's first two chapters, was originally published "as a self-contained sketch", and the "irregular way" the further seven instalments were published suggests that it took Mrs Gaskell time to think of making this into a book.She was during this period busy writing the three volume novel Ruth, which was published January 1853.Cranford has been described as "practically structurelesss", and given the irregular nature of how it was first published, it is not surprising that it lacks unity.A. W. Ward describes the novel, as a "brief series of sketches, strung together with easy grace".The small country town of Cranford corresponds to Knutsford, Cheshire, where Elizabeth Gaskell had spent much of her childhood and where she returned after she married. However, the story's narrator comes from the nearby industrial city of Drumble, which corresponds to Manchester, where the author lived when writing the novel.There is no real plot, but rather a collection of satirical sketches, which sympathetically portray changing small town customs and values in mid Victorian England. 9] Harkening back to memories of her childhood in the small Cheshire town of Knutsford, Cranford is Elizabeth Gaskell's affectionate portrait of people and customs that were already becoming anachronisms............... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (n e Stevenson, 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bront , published in 1857, was the first biography about Bront . Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851-53), North and South (1854-55), and Wives and Daughters (1865).Gaskell was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on 29 September 1810 at 93 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. She was the youngest of eight children; only she and her brother John survived infancy. Her father, William Stevenson, was a Scottish Unitarian minister at Failsworth, Lancashire, but resigned his orders on conscientious grounds and moved to London in 1806 with the intention of going to India after he was appointed private secretary to the Earl of Lauderdale, who was to become Governor General of India. That position did not materialise, however, and instead Stevenson was nominated Keeper of the Treasury Records. His wife, Elizabeth Holland, came from a family from the English Midlands that was connected with other prominent Unitarian families, including the Wedgwoods, the Martineaus, the Turners and the Darwins. When she died 13 months after giving birth to her youngest daughter, 1] she left a bewildered husband who saw no alternative for Elizabeth but to be sent to live with her mother's sister, Hannah Lumb, in Knutsford, Cheshire. While she was growing up Elizabeth's future was uncertain, as she had no personal wealth and no firm home, though she was a permanent guest at her aunt and grandparents' house. Her father married Catherine Thomson in 1814 and they had a son, William (born 1815), and a daughter, Catherine (born 1816). Although Elizabeth spent several years without seeing her father and his new family, her older brother John often visited her in Knutsford. John was destined for the Royal Navy from an early age, like his grandfathers and uncles, but he had no entry and had to join the Merchant Navy with the East India Company's fleet.....
North and South (1854). By: Elizabeth Gaskell: Novel (social novel)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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North and South is a social novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Along with Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best known novels and has been adapted for television twice, in 1975 and 2004. The latter version renewed interest in the novel and gained it a wider readership. While Gaskell's first novel Mary Barton (1848) focused on relations between employers and workers in Manchester from the perspective of the working poor, North and South uses a protagonist from southern England to present and comment on the perspectives of both mill owners and mill workers in an industrializing city. North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the brutal world wrought by the industrial revolution and employers and workers clashing in the first organised strikes. Sympathetic to the poor, whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends, she clashes with John Thornton, a cotton mill manufacturer who belongs to the nouveaux riches class and whose contemptuous attitude to workers Margaret rejects. The novel traces both her growing understanding of the complexity of labor relations and her impact on well-meaning mill owners, and her conflicted relationship with John Thornton.Gaskell based her depiction of Milton on Manchester, where she lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister.Margaret Hale, 19, happily returns home from London to the idyllic southern village of Helstone after her cousin Edith marries Captain Lennox. She lived nearly 10 years in the city with Edith and wealthy Aunt Shaw to learn to be an accomplished young lady. Margaret, herself, has refused a marriage offer from the captain's brother, Henry, a rising barrister. But her life is turned upside down when her father, the local pastor, leaves the Church of England and the rectory of Helstone as a matter of conscience-his intellectual honesty having made him a dissenter. On the suggestion of his old friend from Oxford, Mr. Bell, he settles with his wife and daughter in Milton-Northern, where Mr. Bell was born and owns property. An industrial town in Darkshire, a textile-producing region, it is engaged in cotton-manufacturing and finds itself in the middle of the industrial revolution, where masters and workers clash in the first organised strikes. Margaret finds the bustling, smoky town of Milton harsh and strange and she is upset by the poverty all around. Mr. Hale, in reduced financial circumstances, works as a tutor and counts as his pupil the rich and influential manufacturer, Mr. John Thornton, master of Marlborough Mills. From the outset, Margaret and Thornton are at odds with each other: She sees him as coarse and unfeeling; he sees her as haughty. But he is attracted to her beauty and self-assurance and she begins to admire how he has lifted himself from poverty. During the 18 months she spends in Milton, Margaret gradually learns to appreciate the city and its hard-working people, especially Nicholas Higgins, a Workers' Union representative, and his daughter Bessy, whom she befriends. Bessy is consumptive from inhalation of cotton dust and she eventually dies from it. Meantime, Margaret's mother is growing more seriously ill and a workers' strike is brewing. Masters and hands (workers) do not reach a resolution on the strike and an incensed mob of workers threatens Thornton and his factory with violence after he brought Irish workers into his mill. Margaret implores Thornton to intervene and talk to the mob, but he manages merely to fuel their anger. Margaret intervenes too and is struck down by a stone.........Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (n e Stevenson, 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer.....
Elizabeth Byrd and the Magic Words
D. L. Frost
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2016
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Elizabeth Byrd is determined to find someone who can help her figure out what those elusive magic words are that her mother is always asking her for. She encounters several helpful creatures throughout her adventure that offer magic words like "Alakazam" and "Hocus Pocus", but none are the right words, until she meets Jack. The tale provides a lively and fun way for young children to embrace the benefits of good manners while learning to read.
Was Elizabeth Bathory a Monster?Read this book for FREE on Kindle Unlimited - Order Now Do you know the story of the Countess? Were you fascinated by Lady Gaga's recent depiction of Elizabeth Bathory in "American Horror Story"? Would you like to know more about this controversial historical figure?If so, Countess Elizabeth Bathory: The Life and Legacy of History's Most Prolific Female Serial Killer is the book for you. It explains the life and times of this powerful woman - and how she came to be accuses of so many heinous crimes. You'll gain access to a variety of historical versions, perspectives, and accounts of her life - some of which paint her as a villain-and others as a victim Countess Elizabeth Bathory: The Life and Legacy of History's Most Prolific Female Serial Killer is available for Download Now.Was Elizabeth a victim of her family's abuse - and her husband? Can her foul acts be explained by the horrors she witnessed as a girl and experienced as a teenager?No one can say for sure which tales are true and which were fabricated by her political opponents. Perhaps later storytellers have embellished this horrifying tale - which is still popular today Whatever the truth of the story, Countess Elizabeth Bathory: The Life and Legacy of History's Most Prolific Female Serial Killer is an essential piece of the puzzle. Read this book and decide for yourself In this book, you'll even discover a useful time line of Elizabeth's life and fall from grace.Download Now for Instant Reading by Scrolling Up and Clicking the "Buy" Button.Happy Reading and Good Luck
Sylvia's Lovers Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars. Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang, a scene witnessed by Philip. Philip does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor relay to her Charlie's parting message and, believing her lover is dead, Sylvia eventually marries her cousin. This act is primarily prompted out of gratefulness for Philip's assistance during a difficult time following her father's imprisonment and subsequent execution for leading a revengeful raid on press-gang collaborators. They have a daughter. Inevitably, Kinraid returns to claim Sylvia and she discovers that Philip knew all the time that he was still alive. Philip leaves her in despair at her subsequent rage and rejection, but she refuses to live with Kinraid because of her child.
The Whisky Wedding LP: A Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet story
Elizabeth Ann West
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2016
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North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indicates a major theme of the book: the contrast between the way of life in the industrial north of England and the wealthier south, although it was only under pressure from her publishers that Gaskell changed the title from its original, Margaret Hale. The book is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The heroine of the story, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England. The town is modeled after Manchester, where Gaskell lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. Gaskell herself worked among the poor and knew at first hand the misery of the industrial areas.
Curious, If True: Strange Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I daresay you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from. I was just a girl in the village school, when, one day, your grandmother came in to ask the mistress if there was any scholar there who would do for a nurse-maid; and mighty proud I was, I can tell ye, when the mistress called me up...
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much so in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.
Elizabeth wrote to reclaim her life. To save it. But she couldn't have guessed where the words would take her. Or who might be touched. Elizabeth's intriguing fictional autobiography defines a lifelong adventurer and dreamer. And an imprisoned housewife. Elizabeth's Story is about coincidence and contradiction. Lives suspended between truth and fiction.Elizabeth roomed with Kathryn at a coed Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania. Senior year, 1964. The two girls formed a lasting bond, and made plans for writing their life stories. They drifted apart, sharing only an occasional note over the years. Fifty years later, Kathryn receives a letter from Elizabeth, planning to travel to California by train, to reclaim a sense of peace with her friend. Elizabeth is carrying a manuscript. Her story. She tells pieces of the story along the way. But Elizabeth's Story is about two such journeys, as a messenger delivers a copy of Elizabeth's published memoir in Denmark, and he too shares pieces of the story. The book transports readers from Pennsylvania to Denmark, Thailand, and Switzerland and from the Sixties to the present. As tales are told and retold, mysteries at the story's heart are revealed, and hearers end up contributing to the story.
Mary Barton (1848) NOVEL by: Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Cranford. by: Elizabeth Gaskell ( the best-known of Elizabeth Gaskell's NOVEL )
Elizabeth Gaskell
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North and South (1854) NOVEL by: Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Wives and Daughters (1865) NOVEL by: Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Half a Life-time Ago by: Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell
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