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Elizabeth Gaskell - A Portrait in Letters (Paperback, 2nd edition) Loot Price: R565
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Elizabeth Gaskell - A Portrait in Letters (Paperback, 2nd edition): John Chapple

Elizabeth Gaskell - A Portrait in Letters (Paperback, 2nd edition)

John Chapple; Assisted by John Geoffrey Sharps

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Elizabeth Gaskell is best known as a novelist and biographer, but she was also a lively and sensitive letter writer, with a vivacious interest in all that was going on around her. This selection from her letters, with a linking commentary, provides a biography of Gaskell largely in her own words. It is in chronological order, with special chapters devoted to her family life, her travels, her charities and her life as an author who was also a wife and mother, in a period when Victorian society and culture were undergoing major changes - especially apparent in the Manchester where she lived. She emerges as a woman of intelligence, integrity and grace, with an enchanting sense of humour, an insatiable curiosity about life, a deep regard for truth and a boundless sympathy for others. This selection by John Chapple, and assisted by John Geoffrey Sharps, was originally published in 1980. With the support of the Gaskell Society it has been reprinted without alteration, except for some new illustrations.

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Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2007
First published: 2007
Authors: John Chapple
Assisted by: John Geoffrey Sharps
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-7789-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism
Books > Biography > Literary
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LSN: 0-7190-7789-3
Barcode: 9780719077890

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