Winner of the Portico Prize Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography
of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell
wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age,
including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and Daughters.
This biography traces Elizabeth's youth in rural Knutsford, her
married years in the tension-ridden city of Manchester and her wide
network of friends in London, Europe and America. Standing as a
figure caught up in the religious and political radicalism of
nineteenth century Britain, the book looks at how Elizabeth
observed, from her Manchester home, the brutal but transforming
impact of industry, enjoying a social and family life, but
distracted by her need to write down the truth of what she saw. In
this widely acclaimed biography, Elizabeth Gaskell emerges as an
artist of unrecognized complexity, shrewdly observing the
political, religious and feminist arguments of nineteenth century
Britain, with enjoyment, passion and wit. Jenny Uglow is the
bestselling author of Nature's Engraver, which won the National
Arts Writers Award, and A Gambling Man: Charles II and the
Restoration, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson
Prize. Her most recent books include Nature's Engraver, the story
of Thomas Bewick, and In These Times, a history of the home front
during the Napoleonic Wars.
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