Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories

by JennyUglow (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.24

  Elizabeth Gaskell won fame and notoriety as the author of Mary Barton and The Life of Charlotte Bronte . This biography looks at Gaskell's life and work. Standing as a figure caught up in the religious and political radicalism of mid-19th-century Britain, the book looks at how she observed, from her Manchester home, the brutal but transforming impact of industry, enjoying a social and family life, but distracted by her need to write down the truth of what she saw.

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.24

  Elizabeth Gaskell won fame and notoriety as the author of Mary Barton Ruth and The Life of Charlotte Bronte . This biography looks at Elizabeth's life and work. Standing as a figure caught up in the religious and political radicalism of mid-19th-century Britain, the book looks at how Elizabeth observed, from her Manchester home, the brutal but transforming impact of industry, enjoying a social and family life, but distracted by her need to write down the truth of what she saw.

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  Paperback
  1999

  $17.07

  Winner of the Portico Prize Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and Daughters. This biography traces Elizabeth's youth in rural Knutsford, her married years in the tension-ridden city of Manchester and her wide network of friends in London, Europe and America. Standing as a figure caught up in the religious and political radicalism of nineteenth century Britain, the book looks at how Elizabeth observed, from her Manchester home, the brutal but transforming impact of industry, enjoying a social and family life, but distracted by her need to write down the truth of what she saw. In this widely acclaimed biography, Elizabeth Gaskell emerges as an artist of unrecognized complexity, shrewdly observing the political, religious and feminist arguments of nineteenth century Britain, with enjoyment, passion and wit. Jenny Uglow is the bestselling author of Nature's Engraver, which won the National Arts Writers Award, and A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent books include Nature's Engraver, the story of Thomas Bewick, and In These Times, a history of the home front during the Napoleonic Wars.