Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Release Date: May 18, 2005 [eBook #2532]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-us (us-ASCII)
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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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The Yokohama District Court sentenced a 56-year-old woman to 12
years in prison Monday for strangling her 19-year-old daughter in
2005 at their apartment in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture -- ...
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The Yokohama District Court sentenced a 56-year-old woman to 12
years in prison Monday for strangling her 19-year-old daughter in
2005 at their apartment in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture -- ...
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Sitting in jail awaiting trial, the leader of a polygamous sect renounced his role as a prophet and said he had been "immoral" with a sister and daughter decades ago, newly unsealed documents show....
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