Elizabeth Stevenson was born in London on 29 September 1810, the daughter of a Unitarian minister. After her mother's early death, she was raised by an aunt who lived in Knutsford in Cheshire. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, also a Unitarian minister, and they settled in the industrial city of Manchester. Motherhood and the obligations of a minister's wife kept her busy. However, the death of her only son inspired her to write her first novel, 'Mary Barton', which was published anonymously in 1848 It

When the Cagot died, he was interred apart, in a plot burying-ground on the north side of the cemetery. Under such laws and prescriptions as I have described, it is no wonder that he was generally too poor to have much property for his children to inherit; but certain descrip-tions of it were forfeited to the commune. The only pos-session which all who were not of his own race refused to touch, was his furniture. That was tainted, infectious, unclean--fit for none but Cagots..

So passed away the first days of Alice's widowhood. By and by things subsided into their natural and tranquil course. But, as if the young creature was always to be in some heavy trouble, her ewe- lamb began to be ailing, pining, and sickly. The child's mysterious illness turned out to be some affection of the spine, likely to affect health but not to shorten life--at least, so the doctors said. But the long, dreary suffering of one whom a mother loves as Alice loved her only child, is hard to look forward

Originally, Cranford was published in eight parts in Charles Dickens' journal, Household Words. The first installment appeared in 1851 with more following in 1852 and finishing in 1853. As Peter Keating suggests in his introduction to the Penguin edition of Cranford, the delay in the installments was due to the writing of Ruth, published in 1853 (Keating 8). Cranford is different from the other novels by Elizabeth Gaskell in that it is the depiction of a small English village and is concerned with the every

First published in serial form in Household Words in 1854-1855 and in volume form in 1855. On its appearance in 'Household Words,' this tale was obliged to conform to the conditions imposed by the requirements of a weekly publication, and likewise to confine itself within certain advertised limits, in order that faith might be kept with the public. Although these conditions were made as light as they well could be, the author found it impossible to develope the story in the manner originally intended, and,

Elizabeth Stevenson was born in London on 29 September 1810, the daughter of a Unitarian minister. After her mother´s early death, she was raised by an aunt who lived in Knutsford in Cheshire. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, also a Unitarian minister, and they settled in the industrial city of Manchester. Motherhood and the obligations of a minister´s wife kept her busy. However, the death of her only son inspired her to write her first novel, ´Mary Barton´, which was published anonymously in 1848. It

Taciser Belge, Fatih Özgüven çevirisi, Barış Özkul'un önsözü ve Audrey Jaffe'nin sonsözüyle, Yazar ve dönem kronolojisiyle, Kitaba dair görsellerle. Cranford, 19. yüzyıl İngiliz edebiyatının dev yazarı Elizabeth Gaskell'ın İngiliz taşrasına kadınlar arasındaki dostluklar üzerinden bakan başyapıtı. Cranford'da Gaskell, bekâr ve orta yaşlı iki kadının, Miss Deborah ve Miss Matty'nin serüvenleri üzerinden taşra yaşamına dair minimalist portreler sunuyor. Kadınlar arasındaki arkadaşlıklar ve alışkanlıkların dek

Viktorya Dönemi edebiyatının en özgün kadın kahramanlarından Margaret Hale ile tanışmaya hazır mısınız? Kuzey ve Güney, döneminin en önemli sosyal eleştirilerinden ve en tutkulu aşk hikâyelerinden birini barındıran ve yazarı Elizabeth Gaskell'a o muhteşem ününü kazandıran bir yazınsal şölen Margaret Hale, yaşamının baharında yer değiştirerek farklı bir yaşamın içine girmek zorunda kalan genç bir kız olarak, karşısına çıkan ve üstesinden gelmesi gereken sorunlara ürettiği çözümlerle, dönemin okurları üzerin