Title: Wives and Daughters
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Release Date: July, 2003 [EBook #4274] [Edition
10 was first posted on December 26, 2001] [This edition
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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 editor-in-chief of Playboy Indonesia was acquitted Thursday of charges that he violated the Muslim nation's indecency laws by publishing pictures of scantily clothed women.Erwin Arnada had face...
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A young Muslim slaps the chief of a Paris maternity ward because the doctor manually examined his wife. The case is unusual because it went to court, but the violence is not.A report issued Monday ...
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A young Muslim slaps the chief of a Paris maternity ward because the doctor manually examined his wife. The case is unusual because it went to court, but the violence is not.A report issued Monday ...
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Berlin (dpa) - Veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda will be
flying the flag for Central and Eastern Europe at the Berlin film
festival which opens next week.
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The U.S. military on Wednesday weighed into the politically explosive case of a Sunni woman allegedly raped last weekend by three Iraqi policemen, announcing its own investigation after the Shiite-...
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The U.S. military weighed into the politically explosive case of a Sunni woman allegedly raped last weekend by three Iraqi policemen, announcing its own investigation after the Shiite-run governmen...
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ALGIERS, Dec 17 (Reuters) - The sight of women working as
bus and taxi drivers, petrol pump attendants or police officers
in Algeria's larger towns can surprise newcomers by suggesting
women are e...
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Amman (dpa) - Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit on Thursday
defended the deal his government had concluded with Israel for the
transfer of four Jordanians jailed in Isra...
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These days it's easier to find a Cinnabon in Mecca than the house where the Prophet Muhammad was born.The ancient sites in Islam's holiest city are under attack from both money and extreme religion...
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Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Indonesia Playboy editor acquitted
