The complete online text of Cousin Phillis 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...

A person, scattered in space and time, is no longer a woman, but a series of events on which we can throw no light, a series of insoluble problems. (Proust 1983, 99-100) The eye and the gaze--this is for us the split in...

Byline: Donnie Webb Staff writer Syracuse University freshman defensive tackle Omain Gullette was gunned down and killed Saturday afternoon in his hometown of Philadelphia. The medical examiner's office said Gullette died of multiple gunshot wounds. Gullette, 19, graduated on June 20...