The complete online text of Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3 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 giant care package of more than 2,000 new and used books will be shipped from Washington to Eastern Europe next week, a gift from a few dozen District book lovers to people starved for a taste of Western literature. "There's a shortage...

DEBORAH SAYER News Assistant Portland Press Herald (Maine) 01-25-2007 Chocolate lovers unite for Feb. 3 benefit Byline: DEBORAH SAYER News Assistant Edition: YORK Section: YOUR NEIGHBORS Memo: IF YOU GO WHAT: The fifth annual Chocolate Extravaganza WHEN: 1-4 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 3 WHERE: showroom...