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The Penguin English Library edition of North and South by Elizabeth
Gaskell 'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to
smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth
Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the
most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian
fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move from the
country to an industrial northern town, she develops a passionate
sense of social justice, and a turbulent relationship with
mill-owner John Thornton. North and South depicts a young woman
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Forced to move from the rural tranquillity of southern England to
the turbulent northern mill town of Milton, Margaret Hale takes an
instant dislike to the dirt and noise that seems to characterize
her new home and its inhabitants - even the handsome and
charismatic cotton mill owner, John Thornton. But as she begins to
settle in, and to understand the nature of the surrounding poverty
and injustice, events conspire to throw her and Thornton together.
Amidst the chaos of industrial unrest, they must learn to overcome
the prejudices of class and circumstance and admit their feelings
for one another. One of literature's greatest romances, North and
South by Elizabeth Gaskell is both an incisive social commentary
and an electric portrayal of all-conquering love. This Macmillan
Collector's Library edition of North and South features an
afterword by Kathryn White. Designed to appeal to the booklover,
the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift
editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's
Library are books to love and treasure.
Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in an acrimonious strike. Against this backdrop of social unrest, the relationship between the two is tumultuous, and it takes further upheaval and tragedy for them to see each other in a different light. First serialized in Dickens's magazine Household Words in the same period as Hard Times, North and South shares its famous counterpart's concern with the inequality and hardship generated by the Industrial Revolution in northern England, while at the same time creating one of the nineteenth century's most memorable and engaging female protagonists in Margaret Hale.
Presents a collection of linked short stories about the inhabitants
of the eponymous small provincial town. Interweaving comic episodes
with social comment, this title is a celebration of the better side
of human nature, in which kindness and generosity of spirit triumph
over adversity.
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North and South (Paperback, New edition)
Elizabeth Gaskell; Introduction by Patsy Stoneham; Notes by Patsy Stoneham; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of
Hull. Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's
first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the
heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern
England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell's
skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal
and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society.
This is a tale of hard-won triumphs - of rational thought over
prejudice and of humane care over blind deference to the market.
Readers in the twenty-first century will find themselves absorbed
as this Victorian novel traces the origins of problems and
possibilities which are still challenging a hundred and fifty years
later: the complex relationships, public and private, between men
and women of different classes.
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Mary Barton (Paperback)
Elizabeth Gaskell; Introduction by Sally Minogue; Notes by Sally Minogue; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great
clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid
industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth
century. But these clashes are dramatized through personal
struggles. John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience
with his socialist duty, risking his life and liberty in the
process. His daughter Mary is caught between two lovers, from
opposing classes - worker and manufacturer. And at the heart of the
narrative lies a murder which implicates them all. Mary Barton was
published in 1848, at a time of great social ferment in Europe, and
it reflects its revolutionary moment through an English lens.
Elizabeth Gaskell wrote her first novel about the world in which
she lived - Manchester at the height of the industrial revolution.
As the wife of a Unitarian minister she was solidly middle-class;
but she also had close contact with the working classes around her,
sympathised with them, and represented their extreme distresses in
her fiction. She is radical in taking on their dialect, imagining
the realities of their lives, and placing a working woman at the
centre of her fiction. If to our eyes her vision remains limited,
it was an honest vision, for which she was much criticised in her
own time, by her own class.
This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated
and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts"
includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North
and South, along with the full text of Gaskell s 1850 short story
"Lizzie Leigh," which, like North and South, is set in industrial
Manchester and deals with strong working women. This topic is
further addressed in Bessie Rayner Parkes s essay on Victorian
working women. "Criticism" collects eleven assessments of the
novel, among them Louis Cazamian s 1904 study of industrial fiction
and Hilary Schor s recent study of North and South in the context
of discourse analysis. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are
also included."
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Tales of Mystery & the Macabre (Paperback)
Elizabeth Gaskell; Introduction by David Stuart Davies; Series edited by David Stuart Davies
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With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'In the great mirror
opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful
self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not
knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'. Elizabeth Gaskell
is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary
Barton (1848) but she also wrote some fascinating tales of the
supernatural and the macabre, which are collected here in this
volume. The real charm of this dark anthology is its variety.
Unlike so many writers of this kind of material, Gaskell allows the
story to fit the style rather than the other way around and as
result there is a charming freshness to each tale. This remarkable
author uses different voices, tones and topics to engage her
readers and as you turn from one story to the next you cannot be
quite sure what to expect.
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by
many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor
in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father
marries a second time to give Molly the woman's presence he feels
she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling
step-sister, Molly finds her situation hard to accept. Intertwined
with the story of the Gibsons is that of Squire Hamley and his two
sons; as Molly grows up and falls in love she learns to judge
people for what they are, not what they seem. Through Molly's
observations the hierarchies, social values, and social changes of
early nineteenth-century English life are made vivid in a novel
that is timeless in its representation of human relationships. This
edition, the first to be based in the original Cornhill Magazine
serialization of 1864-6, draws on a full collation of the
manuscript to present the most accurate text so far available.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
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scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
After her parents pass away, young Rosamond is raised by her nurse
in the ancestral home of her aunt, Miss Furnivall. One day the two
uncover an exceptionally beautiful old portrait? A relative,
distant or close? And is that the strange sound of a distant organ,
or simply the wind?
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Gothic Horror Short Stories (Hardcover)
Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Frederic Benson, Joseph Sheridan Lefanu, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, …
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'I am sure the more fully she - Charlotte Brontë - the friend, the daughter, the sister, the wife, is known - the more highly she will be appreciated.' Mrs Gaskell was quite clear about her priorities when she began to set down the facts of a 'wild, sad life and the beautiful character that grew out of it'. The result was one of the greatest of all English biographies. The book itself was not to be without its stormy passage: Mrs Gaskell, as well she knew, ran up against Victorian shibboleths of propriety and sexual prudery. However, not even the amendments and cuts she was obliged to make in the second and third editions could destroy its overall unity or her psychologically convincing vision of the suffering, emotionally starved and tortured Charlotte Brontë whose life and pitiful death still grips and appalls us. The present text follows the controversial first edition throughout, while all the variations which appeared in the third edition have been recorded in notes and appendices.
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Cranford (Paperback)
Elizabeth Gaskell; Edited by Elizabeth Langland
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Elizabeth Gaskell's episodic second novel, sometimes dismissed as
nostalgically "charming," is now considered by many critics to be
her most sophisticated work. The country town of Cranford is home
to a group of women, affectionately called "Amazons" by the
narrator, whose seemingly uneventful lives are full of conflicts,
failures, and unexpected connections. A rich commentary on
Victorian culture by one of its most astute observers, Cranford
owes its enduring popularity to the complex pleasures it offers the
reader.This Broadview Edition provides an assortment of historical
materials to put the novel in context, including Gaskell's letters
from the period of the novel's writing, excerpts from texts read by
the characters, illustrations from the novel and from contemporary
periodicals, and other Victorian writings on industrialization,
etiquette, and domestic life.
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Wives and Daughters (Paperback, New edition)
Elizabeth Gaskell; Introduction by Dinny Thorold; Notes by Dinny Thorold; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of
Westminster Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her
masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth
century rural England. At its core are family relationships -
father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and
step-daughter - all tested and strained by the romantic
entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the
prevailing tone is one of comedy. Gaskell vividly portrays the
world of the late 1820s and the forces of change within it, and her
vision is always humane and progressive. The story is full of acute
observation and sympathetic character-study: the feudal squire
clinging to old values, his naturalist son welcoming the new world
of science, the local doctor and his scheming second wife, the two
girls brought together by their parent's marriage...
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Ruth (Paperback, New Ed)
Elizabeth Gaskell; Edited by Angus Easson; Introduction by Angus Easson; Notes by Angus Easson
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In Ruth Elizabeth Gaskell set out to portray, not 'the Condition of England' already famously addressed in Mary Barton, but the nature and sensibility of a fallen woman. Her orphaned heroine Ruth, apprenticed to a dressmaker, is seduced and then abandoned by wealthy young Henry Bellingham. Shamed in the eyes of society by her illegitimate son, and yet rejecting the opportunity to marry her seducer, Ruth finds a path that affirms we are not bound to repeat our mistakes. When Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell's second novel, appeared in 1853 its first reviewers were less scandalised than moved and intrigued. In considering a 'fallen woman', Gaskell explores the worlds of nineteenth-century experience concerned with women and family, sexuality, love and religion. She declared of her critics - 'It has made them talk and think a little on a subject which is so painful it requires all one's bravery not to hide one's head like an ostrich'.
This Norton Critical Edition of Gaskell s first novel is based on
the 1854 Fifth Edition, the last edition corrected by the author.
Contexts includes letters related to Mary Barton s publication
as well as Gaskell s reaction to her harshest critics. Ten
contemporary reviews reflect the dual nature of the novel s
critical reception: one group valuing its eye-opening moral energy
and concern for the suffering of the working classes and the other
group taking Gaskell to task for the deceptive implications of her
perceived flawed reasoning. A section featuring fifteen
illustrations from the novel offers readers the opportunity to
explore narrative emphases.
Criticism collects seventeen major interpretations of the novel
s central themes. Contributors include Kathleen Tillotson, Richard
D. Altick, John Lucas, Catherine Gallagher, Hilary Schor, Deborah
Epstein, Susan Zlotnick, Jonathan H. Grossman, and Liam Corley,
among others.
A Chronology of Gaskell s life and work and a Selected
Bibliography are also included."
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Sylvia's Lovers (Paperback, Revised)
Elizabeth Gaskell; Edited by Shirley Foster; Introduction by Shirley Foster; Notes by Shirley Foster
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Elizabeth Gaskell called Sylvia's Lovers (1863) 'the saddest story I ever wrote', and in it she deals profoundly with themes of unrequited love, jealousy and individual choice. In the 1790s the Yorkshire seaside town of Monkshaven is disturbed by the arrival of the press-gang who come to seize and ship their captives abroad to fight in the Napoleonic Wars. In this atmosphere of unease Sylvia's Lovers portrays the rivalries of two men, the sober tradesman Philip Hepburn, who has been devoted to his cousin Sylvia since her childhood, and the whale-ship harpooner Charley Kinraid who is gallant and charming with a reputation as a 'light-of-love' with women. Sylvia's tragedy, vividly and movingly dramatized, is to love one of these men, but to marry the other. Shirley Foster provides an introduction to this Penguin Classics edition, together with notes and appendices on the novel's historical sources and text.
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Lisette Leigh
Elizabeth Gaskell
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