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This title contains a description of all units in British Service
which have enlisted Gurkhas at some period. Revised, written and
researched by Sir John Chapple, and his team, who's knowledge of
the Gurkhas and their service in the British Army is second to
none. It provides the authoritative account of the evolution of
raising the Regiments from their inception, dating from 1815 to the
present day, the recruitment of the different castes and their
districts, and chronological lists of who and what served where.
Contains number of previously unpublished letters which were not
included in the hardback edition. Completes the project of
publishing the correspondence of one of the greatest
nineteeth-century novelists - J. A. V. Chapple edited not only the
letters of Elizabeth Gaskell (1966), but also published Elizabeth
Gaskell: The early years in 1997. The influence and appreciation of
Mrs Gaskell is undergoing a renaissance, with the recent BBC
adaptation of Wives and Daughters and the forthcoming North and
South. The authors are two of the acknowledged world experts on
Elizabeth Gaskell - both of whom have helped the BBC in compiling
the 1999 Omnibus programme.. This collection illustrates once more
the richness and diversity of her involvement in a remarkable range
of social and literary activities, making her letters an important
source for scholars of Victorian literature and culture 6. Includes
correspondence. -- .
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple,
University of Hull. The sheer variety and accomplishment of
Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume
contains six of her finest stories that have been selected
specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of
her art. As diverse in setting as in subject matter, these tales
move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town
in Dr Harrison's Confessions, to atmospheric horror in far
north-west Wales with The Doom of the Griffiths. The story of
Cousin Phillis, her masterly tale of love and loss, is a subtle,
complex and perceptive analysis of changes in English national life
during an industrial age, while the gripping Lois the Witch
recreates the terrors of the Salem witchcraft trials in
seventeenth-century New England, as Gaskell shrewdly shows the
numerous roots of this furious outbreak of delusion. Whimsically
modified fairy tales are set in a French chateau, while an engaging
love story poetically evokes peasant life in wine-growing Germany.
This absorbing study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her
marriage in 1832 is based almost entirely on new evidence. Also,
using parish records, marriage settlements, property transfers,
wills, record office documents, letters, journals and private
papers, John Chapple has recreated the background of one of the
nineteenth century's greatest novelists. The widely differing lives
of her father, brother and the aunt who raised her are illuminated
at length by these original documents. Chapple has discovered a
number of letters written by close relations that shed new light on
her upbringing, and he analyses three hitherto unknown travel
journals buy her Knutsford cousins which prove that she grew up in
a literary milieu. Other biographical accounts of Elizabeth
Gaskell's life have been compared and, where necessary, corrected,
but Chapple's main emphasis lies with the wealth of new material
that he has discovered. This ensures that The early years will
provide a secure basis for future criticism of her creative works,
which so often rely on biographical details -- .
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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