Authors:Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Gaskell,  Jennifer Fos
Publisher: Broadview Pre
Keywords: texts, literary, broadview, barton, mary
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2000-03-21
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1551111691
ISBN-13: 9781551111698

Mary Barton first appeared in 1848, and has since become one of the best known novels on the ’condition of England,’ part of a nineteenth-century British trend to understand the enormous cultural, economic and social changes wrought by industrialization. Gaskell’s work had great importance to the labour and reform movements, and it influenced writers such as Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle and Charlotte Brontë. The plot of Mary Barton concerns the poverty and desperation of England’s industrial workers. Fundamentally, however, it revolves around Mary’s personal c

Authors:Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Porges Watson,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, cranford
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0199538271
ISBN-13: 9780199538270

In this witty and poignant comedy of early-Victorian life in a country town, Elizabeth Gaskell describes the uneventful lives of the lady-like inhabitants so as to offer an ironic commentary on the diverse experiences of men and women. This edition has detailed notes and a new introduction which discusses the originality and subtlety of the book’s angle on women’s experience. Also included in this edition is the sequel to Cranford, The Cage at Cranford, and a unique appendix of related writing.

Authors:Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Porges Watson,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, cranford
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1998-07-09
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0192832093
ISBN-13: 9780192832092

In this witty and poignant comedy of early-Victorian life in a country town, Elizabeth Gaskell describes the uneventful lives of the lady-like inhabitants so as to offer an ironic commentary on the diverse experiences of men and women. This edition has detailed notes and a new introduction which discusses the originality and subtlety of the book’s angle on women’s experience. Also included in this edition is the sequel to Cranford, The Cage at Cranford, and a unique appendix of related writing.

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: unabridged, complete, daughters, wives
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2008-12-30
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1441421513
ISBN-13: 9781441421517

The story revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. Yet another classic by Gaskell.

Author: Elizabeth C. Gaskell
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: cranford
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1417960671
ISBN-13: 9781417960675

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: lovers, sylvia
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1605205583
ISBN-13: 9781605205588

But, for all her screen, she felt a pair of eyes were fixed upon her with a glow of admiration deepening their honest brightness. Somehow, look in what direction she would, she caught the glance of those eyes before she could see anything else. So she played with her apron-strings, and tried not to feel so self-conscious. There were another pair of eyes,-not such beautiful, sparkling eyes,-deep-set, earnest, sad, nay even gloomy, watching her every movement; but of this she was not aware. Philip had not recovered from the rebuff she had given him by refusing his offered hand, and was standing

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: daughters, wives
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2004-06-17
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 1419194658
ISBN-13: 9781419194658

Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed but determined to be obedient to the directions of the doctor, whose kindness she and her family had good cause to know. She made strong tea; she helped the young men liberally in Mr Gibson’s absence, as well as in his presence, and she found the way to unloosen their tongues, whenever their master was away, by talking to them on trivial subjects in her pleasant homely way.