Elizabeth Gaskell, Best Novels

Elizabeth Gaskell, Best Novels

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 9781975633912

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, nee Stevenson (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Gaskell was also the first to write a biography of Charlotte Bronte, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, which was published in 1857. In this book: North and South Wives and Daughters Cranford


My Lady Ludlow and Other Stories

My Lady Ludlow and Other Stories

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 9780192818386

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Six stories deal with a rural British community, local legends, the supernatural, and intolerance


My Lady Ludlow

My Lady Ludlow

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781545431757

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My Lady Ludlow is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, with framing passages added at the start and end. It recounts the daily lives of the widowed Countess of Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo, whose father was a Baronet, and their caring for other single women and girls. It is also concerned with Lady Ludlow's man of business, Mr Horner, and a poacher's son named Harry Gregson whose education he provides for.