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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If O.J. Simpson picked it, here's how the Kentucky Derby would end: Tiago at the wire."I'm just loving Kentucky this week," Simpson said on a rainy Thursday morning on the backstretch. "It's just a...
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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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Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-AzizRIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) _ Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz, the governor of the Islam's holy city of Mecca, died Saturday after a long illness, a Saudi Arabian r...
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A teenager accused of being a hit man for a drug cartel pleaded guilty to murder Thursday, abruptly ending a trial that exposed the cartel's workings in the U.S. and Mexico.Rosalio "Bart" Reta, 17,...
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A custody hearing over a 4-year-old Cuban girl in the U.S. focused Friday on whether letters purportedly written to her by her father from the communist country had been faked.A relative of the gir...
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Leaders of a group that was once the United States' largest Muslim charity could learn Monday whether a jury found them guilty or innocent of charges that they funneled millions in illegal aid to M...
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A jury has reached a verdict in the federal case against five former leaders of a Muslim charity, but there was no assurance jurors had reached a decision on the major charges that the organization...
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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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The Half-Brothers
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
O.J.'s Kentucky Derby pick? Tiago
