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ISBN: 9780141198927 - North and South North and South
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

ISBN10: 0141198923  ISBN13: 9780141198927
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Apr 2012
Margaret Hale is forced to move from the country to an industrial northern town. She develops a passionate sense of social justice, and a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton. 'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away... More

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ISBN: 9780199558308 - Cranford Cranford
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

ISBN10: 0199558302  ISBN13: 9780199558308
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 Jun 2011
Cranford is a vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, dominated by its independent and refined women, a blend of social comedy and astute observation. This edition includes two related short works by... More

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ISBN: 9780199537006 - North and South Bestseller North and South
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Angus Easson

ISBN10: 0199537003  ISBN13: 9780199537006
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: New
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Sep 2008
Mary Gaskell's North and South examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves... More

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ISBN: 9780199538355 - Mary Barton Bestseller Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Shirley Foster

ISBN10: 0199538352  ISBN13: 9780199538355
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: New
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Dec 2008
Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the... More

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ISBN: 9780199581955 - Ruth Bestseller Ruth
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Tim Dolin

ISBN10: 0199581959  ISBN13: 9780199581955
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 May 2011
Gaskell's depiction of a fallen woman as her heroine shocked contemporary readers. Ruth is seduced and heartlessly abandoned but finds shelter and love with her illegitimate child until a twist of fate brings her past back to haunt her. More

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ISBN: 9780199538263 - Wives and Daughters Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Angus Easson

ISBN10: 0199538263  ISBN13: 9780199538263
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Dec 2008
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's... More
ISBN: 9781857151855 - Mary Barton Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

ISBN10: 1857151852  ISBN13: 9781857151855
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Edition: New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16 Jun 1994
A romantic story with descriptions of working people and their lives, as the author encountered them in northern mills. Despite this grim setting, the book has the power to involve the reader in the lives of Elizabeth Gaskell's characters. More
ISBN: 9780099511489 - North and South North and South
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

ISBN10: 0099511487  ISBN13: 9780099511489
Publisher: Vintage Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Mar 2008
Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred on the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds there. However... More
ISBN: 9781905716494 - Cranford Cranford
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

ISBN10: 1905716494  ISBN13: 9781905716494
Publisher: CRW Publishing Limited Collector's Library
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2008
Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies. More
ISBN: 9780140434644 - Mary Barton Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Macdonald Daly

ISBN10: 014043464X  ISBN13: 9780140434644
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Oct 1996
The plot turns on Mary's romantic choice between Henry Carson, the son of a rich industrialist, and her working class lover Jem Wilson, and the rivalries between them. The class-divide and the widening gap between rich and poor are central themes... More