The complete online text of An Accursed Race by Elizabeth Gaskell.

The English author Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) wrote sociological novels that explored the ills of industrial England and novels of small-town life that are penetrating studies of character. Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson was born on Sept. 29, 1810. Her...

A recent review of Mrs. Gaskell's critical reputation divided her critics into three camps. One group, now fading, still treats her mainly as the author of Cranford (1853). A second emphasizes her "social-problem" novels but insists that they be regarded...

For some critics Elizabeth Gaskell was a conventional, middle-class Victorian wife and mother who accepted the values of her world and who also happened to write books--a feminine dove among literary eagles Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, to borr...

Byline: Stephen Birmingham, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES "Quaint" is a word I've not often seen used to describe a book. Yet that is the first adjective that sprang to mind when I put down "Winfield: Living in the Shadow of the...

When a libel suit by the president's wife signals more press freedom, not less IT IS almost impossible to buy "Cronicas Malditas" (Accursed Chronicles), the latest book on Marta Sahagun de Fox, the Mexican president's wife and former press secretary. Mexico's largest...