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  • RUTH
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    RUTH
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    Ruth is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a fallen woman in Victorian times. Ruth Hilton is an young orphaned seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant and alone, is taken in by a minister and his sister. They conceal her single status under the pretense of widowhood in order to protect her child from the social stigma of...

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  • THE MOORLAND COTTAGE
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    THE MOORLAND COTTAGE
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    A touching portrait of a complicated family. The Moorland Cottage is a story about a woman asked to give up her hopes and dreams to further her bother's. Gaskell expertly confronts the mores and social problems faced by Victorian women while highlighting their strength and grace. ...

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  • MARY BARTON
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    MARY BARTON
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    Elizabeth Gaskell uses her novel Mary Barton to compare and contrast the rich and the working class. She links the plight of the working class to that of the plight of Victorian women at the hands of the men in their lives. A classic novel about love and redemption. ...

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  • NORTH AND SOUTH
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    NORTH AND SOUTH
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    The novel 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. She witnesses the brutal world wreaked by the Industrial Revolution, seeing employers and workers clashing in the first strikes. ...

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  • THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË - VOLUME 2
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    THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË - VOLUME 2
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the truth and honour her friend. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË - VOLUME 1
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    THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË - VOLUME 1
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the truth and honour her friend. (Goodreads) ...

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  • CRANFORD
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    CRANFORD
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    A sensitive and moving portrait of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s, Cranford recounts the events and activities in the lives of a group of spinsters and widows who struggle in genteel poverty to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. ...

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  • WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
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    WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell is an unfinished novel that Cornhill Magazine originally published as a serial in 1864. It follows Molly Gibson, a young girl under the care of her widowed father, who falls in love with a son of the landed gentry and discovers the secrets of her friends and family. ...

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  • RUTH
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    RUTH
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Elizabeth Gaskell tells the story of a fallen woman in the Victorian period in her novel Ruth. When Ruth Hilton's parents die, her guardian helps her to secure the position of an apprentice at a seamstress' shop. Sixteen year old Ruth is befriended by Mr. Bellingham who convinces her that he is in love with her. ...

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  • COUSIN PHILLIS
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    COUSIN PHILLIS
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his (second) cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence. Most critics agree that Cousin Phillis is Gaskell's crowning achievement in the short novel. ...

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  • MARY BARTON
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    MARY BARTON
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Mary Barton is the story of a working-class family in which the father, John Barton, lapses into bitter class hatred during a cyclic depression and carries out a retaliatory murder at the behest of his trade union. ...

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  • THE GREY WOMAN AND OTHER TALES
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    THE GREY WOMAN AND OTHER TALES
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Tales of murder and mystery intertwine with sentimental holiday stories in this eclectic collection. The Grey Woman and Other Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a collection of short fiction with varying genres. With thrilling, suspenseful, sentimental and moral narratives, Gaskell’s Victorian gothic tales proves that she can master any genre. (Goodreads) ...

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  • CURIOUS, IF TRUE
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    CURIOUS, IF TRUE
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Curious, If True: Strange Tales is a collection of five dark Victorian tales of suspense, horror, mood and mystery by Elizabeth Gaskell, published variously between 1852 and 1861. Includes "The Old Nurse's Story," "The Poor Clare," "Lois The Witch," "The Grey Woman," and "Curious, If True." (Goodreads) ...

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  • COUSIN PHILLIS
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    COUSIN PHILLIS
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    'Cousin Phillis' is a haunting story about Paul Manning, a youth of nineteen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence. Paul finds himself helpless to prevent his cousin's heartbreak. ...

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  • CURIOUS, IF TRUE
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    CURIOUS, IF TRUE
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    Here is a collection of five spooky Victorian stories by Elizabeth Gaskell. Included are 'The Old Nurse's Story,' 'The Poor Clare,' 'Lois the Witch,' 'The Grey Woman,' and 'Curious, if True.' ...

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  • CRANFORD
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    CRANFORD
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    The fictional town of Cranford is closely modeled after Knutsford in Cheshire England, which Elizabeth Gaskell knew well. This gentle, humorous, and witty book follows the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two spinster sisters. A classic. ...

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  • NORTH AND SOUTH
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    NORTH AND SOUTH
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    A novel of love and social strife in northern England during the industrial revolution—a masterpiece of Victorian literature. After a decade spent living with her aunt in London, nineteen-year-old Margaret Hale returns home to her beloved village of Helstone only to discover that her pastor father has had a crisis of faith and is moving the family to the North of England. In th...

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  • MARY BARTON
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    MARY BARTON
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    A tale of love, class, and murder during the era of the trade-union movement in nineteenth-century England, from the author of North and South. In Manchester, long-suffering John Barton and his daughter, Mary, both want a better future for each other.  John toils away with the trades’ union for better wages for his fellow workers in the textile mill, while Mary must consider wh...

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  • WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
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    WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    Secrets and scandals steer a young woman’s life as she comes of age and finds love in Victorian England.   Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson has grown up under the watchful eye of her widowed father, the doctor Mr. Gibson. After one of his apprentices develops an interest in Molly, Mr. Gibson feels the only way to protect her is to send her to live with the Hamley family.   With ...

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  • CRANFORD
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    CRANFORD
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    The women of an English country village star in this Victorian classic that inspired a BBC series, from the author of North and South.   Welcome to Cranford, where everyone knows one another and a cow wears pajamas. It’s a community built on friendship and kindness, where women hold court and most of the houses—and men—are rarely seen. Two colorful spinster sisters at the heart...

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  • RUTH
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    RUTH
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    A tragic affair blooms between a working-class orphan and a wealthy rake in this classic novel of Victorian England. Although Ruth Hilton is kind, life does not treat her kindly in return. An orphaned young seamstress, she works long hours at a sweatshop in a small English town. When she is sent to a fancy ball to repair the ladies’ dresses, she catches the eye of a gentleman, ...

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  • THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË
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    THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    The author of Jayne Eyreis brought to life by her friend and fellow novelist in “one of the most remarkable literary biographies in English prose” (The Guardian).   One of the Guardian’s 100 best nonfiction books of all time   First published in 1857, The Life of Charlotte Brontë presents an intimate portrait of the celebrated author through the eyes of Elizabeth Gaskell, a per...

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  • CUENTOS GOTICOS
    CUENTOS GOTICOS
    GASKELL ELIZABETH
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    $615.00

  • LA PRIMA PHILLIS
    LA PRIMA PHILLIS
    GASKELL ELIZABETH
    A los diecisiete años, Paul Manning, de Birmingham, llega a la pequeña población de Eltham como ayudante del ingeniero del ferrocarril. No muy lejos, en una granja, viven unos parientes de su madre: el pastor de la Iglesia Independiente Holman, su mujer y su hija, a los que a regañadientes se ve obligado a visitar. Sin embargo, la vida pausada que allí descubre, regida -como en...
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    $480.00

  • CRANFORD
    CRANFORD
    GASKELL, ELIZABETH
    Una imborrable crónica de las vicisitudes de un pequeño pueblo inglés.A través de la emblemática figura de unas hermanas solteronas asistimos a los pequeños y grandes acontecimientos de una pequeña comunidad. El paisaje, la ambientación e incluso los personajes de esta novela están tomados del pueblecito en que la autora pasó su infancia, Knutsford, y en un retrato lleno de hum...
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    $520.00

  • HIJAS Y ESPOSAS
    HIJAS Y ESPOSAS
    GASKELL ELIZABETH
    El señor Gibson, médico de la pequeña localidad de Hollingford, es de los que opinan que el mundo iría aceptablemente bien sin mujeres. Sin embargo, viudo, siempre pendiente de sus pacientes, apenas es capaz de cuidar de su casa y de su hija, a quien empiezan a rondar ya los primeros pretendientes. Pese a todos sus resquemores, decide buscar una mujer que pueda gobernar su caos...
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    $1,155.00

  • PRIMA PHILLIS, LA
    PRIMA PHILLIS, LA
    GASKELL, ELIZABETH
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    $615.00

  • VIDA DE CHARLOTTE BRONTE
    VIDA DE CHARLOTTE BRONTE
    GASKELL ELIZABETH
    La Vida de Charlotte Bronté de Elizabeth Gaskell se publicó en 1857, menos de dos años después de la muerte de Charlotte, y conoció un éxito inmediato. Fue escrita a instancias del propio padre de la novelista, el reverendo Patrick Bronté, quien a pesar de su mala salud sobreviviría a todos sus hijos. ...
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    $640.00

  • LAS CONFESIONES DEL SEÑOR HARRISON
    LAS CONFESIONES DEL SEÑOR HARRISON
    GASKELL, ELIZABETH
    Al terminar su formación en un hospital de Londres, el joven señor Harrison acepta un puesto de ayudante de médico rural en la pequeña ciudad de Duncombe. Y, aunque el recién llegado se fija inmediatamente en Sophy, la hija del párroco, no tardará en convertirse en el centro de una equívoca red de expectativas y decepciones que pondrá a prueba su paciencia" y también su vanidad...
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    $465.00

  • VIDA DE CHARLOTTE BRONTE
    VIDA DE CHARLOTTE BRONTE
    GASKELL ELIZABETH
    La «Vida de Charlotte Brontë» se publicó en 1857, dos años después de la muerte de Charlotte, escrita por Elizabeth Gaskell, buena amiga de la autora, a instancias del propio padre de la novelista. Se trata de una vida trágica, comparable a cualquiera de sus novelas; huérfana de madre desde muy joven, Charlotte tuvo que cultivar la imaginación para escapar de una vida llena de ...
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    $930.00


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