BOOKS by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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1	North & South more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Margaret Hale moves with her upper-class family to a provincial industrial town in northern England. There she becomes involved in the lives of local factory workers and union members, at one point even participating in a strike. A stormy and difficult romantic relationship with a factory owner, John Thornton, ends happily after Thornton changes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Cranford more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist CRANFORD is a novel in the form of 16 tales set in an English village inhabited mostly by single women and widows, whose remote, powerless lives are portrayed with a combination of satire, amusement, and sympathy. Elizabeth Gaskell's fourth novel reveals her to be a master storyteller with a lively eye for the eccentric, but it also has a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Wives and Daughters more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist In Elizabeth Gaskell's warmhearted last novel, Molly Gibson's father is remarried to a shallow woman right out of Jane Austen, and becomes friends with her new stepsister, Cynthia, who is involved in a secret engagement to a man in a class below her own. Then Molly herself falls in love with a man who is drawn to the more beautiful Cynthia. As, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.80! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Mary Barton more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Elizabeth Gaskell's novel of working class life in a northern English mill town was controversial when it was published in 1848 because of its sympathy for the downtrodden workers and its indictment of the wealthy class that exploited them. Gaskell, the wife of a Manchester clergyman, wrote her first novel from firsthand experience of the lives of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Cranford Chronicles more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Based on three Elizabeth Gaskell novels, "The Cranford Chronicles" follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire market town, during one extraordinary year. In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $5.89! \| SVS
6	Life of Charlotte Bronte more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Mrs. Gaskell's celebrated book was the first biography of Charlotte Bronte. The two women were close friends, and Bronte was not unlike the self-sacrificing heroines of Gaskell's own novels. Gaskell drew closely on her own knowledge of Bronte in this affectionate evaluation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Cranford and Cousin Phillis: 6 more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, P J Keating (Editor) add to wishlist "Cranford" depicts the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of a small village - their petty snobberies and appetite for gossip, and their loyal support for each other in times of need. The village is dominated by women, from the kindly spinster Miss Matty, living in genteel poverty with her redoubtable sister, to Lady Glenmire, who shocks ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.21!
8	Sylvia's Lovers more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Elizabeth Gaskell's 1863 novel takes place in Monkshaven, an English seaport town, during the Napoleonic Wars. When Sylvia's beloved, Charley, is pressed onto a whaling ship and then reported dead, Sylvia marries her cousin, Philip--only to find that Philip has been guilty of a horrendous betrayal. With her customary insight into character and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.58! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Ruth more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Ruth Hilton, like so many Victorian heroines, is seduced, made pregnant, and abandoned by a wealthy and careless man. The story follows the devout Ruth, who perseveres in seeking redemption for her sins, as she raises her child and struggles to make a living. Mrs. Gaskell wrote this novel in 1853; its sympathetic treatment of a "fallen woman" was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Elizabeth Gaskell's novel of working class life in a northern English mill town was controversial when it was published in 1848 because of its sympathy for the downtrodden workers and its indictment of the wealthy class that exploited them. Gaskell, the wife of a Manchester clergyman, wrote her first novel from firsthand experience of the lives of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.89!
11 view cover	Oxford World's Classics more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Alan Shelston (Editor) add to wishlist CRANFORD is a novel in the form of 16 tales set in an English village inhabited mostly by single women and widows, whose remote, powerless lives are portrayed with a combination of satire, amusement, and sympathy. Elizabeth Gaskell's fourth novel reveals her to be a master storyteller with a lively eye for the eccentric, but it also has a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.36!
12 view cover	Cranford: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist "Cranford" is the best known and most charming of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels. It is a comic portrait of an early Victorian country village and its genteel inhabitants, mostly women, whose social attitudes remain firmly unchanging against the modernising world, and whose domestic details dominate conversation. Gaskell describes the uneventful lives ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $5.49!
13 view cover	My Lady Ludlow more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Lady Ludlow, rigidly class-conscious, must alter her way of thinking as, inexorably, times change. see all copies from $2.84! new only from $8.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Cousin Phillis and Other Tales (1870) more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist COUSIN PHYLLIS, an 1864 novella, is considered one of Gaskell's finest short works. Underrated as a writer after her untimely death until the feminist movement brought her to prominence in the 1970s, Gaskell wrote powerful and warmly appealing stories about women and their relationship to society, including not only marriage and motherhood but ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.52! \| SVS
15 view cover	Gothic Tales more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in The Old ... see all copies from $3.90! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Wives and Daughters Wives and Daughters more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Graham Handley (Editor) add to wishlist Molly seems fated to suffer, firstly from her father's ill-conceived remarriage, and then from seeing her friend Roger Hamley infatuated with Molly's stepsister Cynthia. Everyone relies on Molly, but when will she have a fulfilling life of her own? This study edition contains commentary. see all copies from $3.91! new only from $97.91!
17 view cover	Wives and Daughters: In Half the Time more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Young Molly Gibson's life is overturned when her previously doting father remarries, bringing with him a manipulative step-mother and a sophisticated but troubled step-sister. Can Molly keep her head when she becomes the centre of attention in a community rife with gossip? She finds herself acting as a go-between in her step-sister's love affairs ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
18 view cover	Lois the witch by Elizabeth Gaskell add to wishlist Recently orphaned, Lois is forced to leave the English parsonage that had been her home, and sail to America. A Godfearing and honest girl, she has little to fear in this new life. Yet as she joins her distant family, she finds jealousy and dissention are rife, and her cousins quick to point the finger at the 'impostor'. With the whole of Salem ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.21! \| SVS
19	Elizabeth Gaskell: A Portrait in Letters more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist see all copies from $21.50!
20 view cover	A House to Let more books like this by Charles Dickens add to wishlist This unique single-volume edition of an unjustly neglected collection of tales compiled by Charles Dickens is a perfect companion to Hesperus' best-selling edition of The Haunted House. Compiled by Charles Dickens and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the ... see all copies from $2.26! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton-North and South more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Alison Chapman (Editor) add to wishlist From the publication of her first novel, "Mary Barton", in 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell's work has been the subject of critical debate and, often, critical misappropriation. With its raw depiction of urban poverty in the early 1840s, the novel troubled critics and commentators who found such matters unsuitable for treatment by a women novelist. "North ... see all copies from $12.96! new only from $19.70! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Curious, If True: Strange Tales more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist CURIOUS, IF TRUE: Strange Tales is a collection of five dark Victorian tales of suspense, horror, mood and mystery by Elizabeth Gaskell, published variously between 1852 and 1861. Includes "The Old Nurse's Story," "The Poor Clare," "Lois The Witch," "The Grey Woman," and "Curious, If True." see all copies from $9.83! new only from $10.13! \| SVS
23 view cover	Cousin Phyllis more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Kenneth Branagh add to wishlist Lodging with an Independent Minister on the outskirts of London, Paul Manning is initially dismayed to discover that the uncle he must visit in the country is also a churchman. Yet far from the oppressively religious household he envisages, Manning is delighted to meet his genial relations, and not least his cousin Phyllis. But when Phyllis falls ... see all copies from $13.88! new only from $22.08!
24 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Jill L Matus (Editor) add to wishlist In the last few decades Elizabeth Gaskell has become a figure of growing importance in the field of Victorian literary studies. She produced work of great variety and scope in the course of a highly successful writing career that lasted for about twenty years from the mid-1840s to her unexpected death in 1865. The essays in this Companion draw on ... see all copies from $49.05! new only from $77.38!
25 view cover	Cousin Phillis more books like this by Elizabeth Gaskell add to wishlist COUSIN PHYLLIS, an 1864 novella, is considered one of Elizabeth Gaskell's finest short works. Underrated as a writer after her untimely death until the feminist movement brought her to prominence in the 1970s, Gaskell wrote powerful and warmly appealing stories about women and their relationship to society, including not only marriage and ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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