Elizabeth Gaskell

Broschiertes Buch

North and South

Beschreibung

'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting examination of changing social conscience' Joanna TrollopeMilton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants.

Autor

Elizabeth Gaskell was born on 29 September 1810 in London. She was brought up in Knutsford, Cheshire by her aunt after her mother died when she was two years old. In 1832 she married William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father. After their marriage they lived in Manchester with their children. Elizabeth Gaskell published her first novel, Mary Barton, in 1848 to great success. She went on to publish much of her work in Charles Dickens's magazines, Household Words and All the Year Round. Along with short stories and a biography of Charlotte Brontë, she published five more novels including North and South (1855) and Wives and Daughters (1866). Wives and Daughters is unfinished as Elizabeth Gaskell died suddenly of heart failure on 12 November 1865.

Produktdetails

• Vintage Classics
• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 601016
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 130mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780099511489
• ISBN-10: 0099511487
• Artikelnr.: 23299201

Rezensionen

Gaskell saw the emotional and economic realities of ordinary life with a steely honesty The Times