The complete online text of Sylvia's Lovers — Complete 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...

You've been looking at next month's calendar, with all those little zeroes lined up across the top. Music historians and the recording industry, however, have been thinking not "2000!" but "250!" Yes, it's the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, and if this seems...

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