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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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Biography EssayA 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 em...
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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.Elizabet...
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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 "so...
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Upon hearing of the death of her friend Charlotte Brontë on 31 March 1855, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell wrote, "I loved her dearly, more than I think she knew. I shall never cease to be thankful th...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Lowell
[The essay from which this excerpt is taken originally appeared in Sewanee Review, Summer 1947.]
On the surface, [Elizabeth Bishop's poems in North & South] ...
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Teaching North and South
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North and South Lesson Plans contain 129 pages of teaching material, including:
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Critical Essay by Robert Lowell
