Elizabeth Gaskell

Wives and Daughters

von Elizabeth Gaskell & Frederick Greenwood

Can't get enough of nineteenth-century British romance? Lovers of books like Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights should give Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters a try. This tale follows the romantic...

North and South

von Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South draws on Gaskell's own experiences of the poverty and hardship of life in the industrial north of England. Her heroine, Margaret Hale, is taken from the wealthy south by her nonconformist minister...

Cranford

von Elizabeth Gaskell

Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. The fictional...

Gothic Tales

von Elizabeth Gaskell & Laura Kranzler

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...

Cranford

von Elizabeth Gaskell

A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live...

Ruth

von Elizabeth Gaskell

Ruth is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a fallen woman in Victorian times. Ruth Hilton is an young orphaned seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant...

The Haunted House of 1859: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

von Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell & Varla Ventura

Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics....

North and South

von Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South is a novel that exposed Victorian inequalities. Margaret Hale, a woman from the South of England, moves to the industrialized North of England where she is shocked by the huge inequalities between...

Mary Barton

von Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell uses her novel Mary Barton to compare and contrast the rich and the working class. She links the plight of the working class to that of the plight of Victorian women at the hands of the men...

Wives and Daughters

von Elizabeth Gaskell

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centers on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries, a new step-sister enters Molly's...

Curious, If True Strange Tales

von Elizabeth Gaskell

Here is a collection of five spooky Victorian stories by Elizabeth Gaskell. Included are The Old Nurse's Story, The Poor Clare, Lois the Witch, The Grey Woman, and Curious, if True.

Cranford

von Elizabeth Gaskell

Mary Smith and her friends live in Cranford, a town predominantly inhabited by women. The return of a long-lost brother named Peter is the most dramatic event to occur over the course of the sixteen tales that...

Cousin Phillis

von Elizabeth Gaskell

The story is about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his (second) cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence....

The Moorland Cottage

von Elizabeth Gaskell

A touching portrait of a complicated family, Gaskell expertly confronts the mores and social problems faced by Victorian women while highlighting their strength and grace.

Stop What You're Doing and Read...To Warm You in Cold Weather: Little Women And Good Wives & The Cranford Chronicles

von Elizabeth Gaskell & Louisa May Alcott

To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundles', to tempt readers to discover...

The Cranford Chronicles

von Elizabeth Gaskell

In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of migrant workers and the breakdown of law and order. The arrival of handsome young...

Mary Barton

von Elizabeth Gaskell

Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections...

North and South

von Elizabeth Gaskell & Jenny Uglow

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JENNY UGLOW

Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially...

Wives and Daughters

von Elizabeth Gaskell

Set in the watchful society of Hollingford, this is a warm tale of love and longing. Molly Gibson is the spirited, loyal daughter of the local doctor. Their peaceful close-knit home is turned upside down when...