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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)

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Elizabeth Gaskell was born on September 29, 1810 to a Unitarian clergyman, who was also a civil servant and journalist. Her mother died when she was young, and she was brought up by her aunt in Knutsford, a small village that was the prototype for Cranford, Hollingford and the setting for numerous vis mere other short stories. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, a Unitarian clergyman in Manchester. She participated in his ministry and collaborated with him to write the poem Sketches among the Poor in 1837. Our Society at Cranford was the first two chapters of Cranford and it appeared in Dickens' Household Words in 1851. Dickens liked it so much that he pressed Gaskell for more episodes, and she produced eight more of them between 1852 and 1853. She also wrote My Lady Ludlow and Lois the Witch, a novella that concerns the Salem witch trials. Wives and Daughters ran in Cornhill from August 1864 to January 1866. The final installment was never written but the ending was known and the novel exists now virtually complete. The story centers on a series of relationships between family groups in Hollingford. Most critics agree that her greatest achievement is the short novel Cousin Phillis. Gaskell was also followed by controversy. In 1853, she offended many readers with Ruth, which explored seduction and illegitimacy that led the "fallen woman" into ostracism and inevitable prostitution. The novel presents the social conduct in a small community when tolerance and morality clash. Critics praised the novel's moral lessons but Gaskell's own congregation burned the book and it was banned in many libraries. In 1857, The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published. The biography was initially praised but angry protests came from some of the people it dealt with. Gaskell was against any biographical notice of her being written during her lifetime. After her death on November 12, 1865, her family refused to make family letters or biographical data available. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

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Cranford (1851) 4,545 eksemplarer
Wives and Daughters (1865) 4,114 eksemplarer
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) — Forfatter — 1,492 eksemplarer
Ruth (1853) 1,074 eksemplarer
Gothic Tales (2000) 612 eksemplarer
Sylvia's Lovers (1863) 597 eksemplarer
Cranford / Cousin Phillis (1976) 389 eksemplarer
The Cranford Chronicles (2007) 347 eksemplarer
Cousin Phillis (1863) 261 eksemplarer
Lois the Witch (1859) 194 eksemplarer
Cranford and Other Stories (1851) 183 eksemplarer
The Moorland Cottage (1850) 169 eksemplarer
My Lady Ludlow (1859) 156 eksemplarer
Tales of Mystery & the Macabre (2008) 110 eksemplarer
The Poor Clare (1856) 109 eksemplarer
Mr. Harrison's Confessions (1851) 92 eksemplarer
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2 (2020) — Bidragyder — 71 eksemplarer
A Dark Night's Work (1863) — Forfatter — 61 eksemplarer
The Grey Woman and other Tales (1977) 47 eksemplarer
Half a Lifetime Ago (1855) 42 eksemplarer
The Grey Woman (1861) 39 eksemplarer
Lois the Witch, and Other Stories (1987) 34 eksemplarer
The Half-Brothers (1859) 33 eksemplarer
Lizzie Leigh (1850) 30 eksemplarer
Four Short Stories (1611) 30 eksemplarer
Round the Sofa (1864) 27 eksemplarer
The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell (1966) 22 eksemplarer
The Doom of the Griffiths (1858) 18 eksemplarer
An Accursed Race (1855) 17 eksemplarer
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages (2007) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Sylvia's Lovers, Volume 3 (2010) 12 eksemplarer
Cousin Phillis and Other Tales (1915) 11 eksemplarer
Sylvia's Lovers Volume 2 (2010) 11 eksemplarer
Mary Barton, and other tales (1890) 10 eksemplarer
The Manchester Marriage (2006) 10 eksemplarer
Right at Last (2004) 9 eksemplarer
Further Letters of Mrs Gaskell (2000) 8 eksemplarer
Uncle Peter (2008) 7 eksemplarer
Cranford and Sylvia's Lovers (1930) 6 eksemplarer
Ruth - And Other Tales (2009) 6 eksemplarer
Lizzie Leigh, and Other Tales (2013) 6 eksemplarer
Sylvia's Lovers - Volume 1 (2010) 5 eksemplarer
Crowley Castle (2002) 5 eksemplarer
[unidentified works] 5 eksemplarer
Lois the Witch & Other Tales (2010) 4 eksemplarer
Cranford 4 eksemplarer
Christmas Storms and Sunshine (2018) 4 eksemplarer
The Squire's Story (1853) 4 eksemplarer
The Sexton's Hero (2015) 4 eksemplarer
French Life (2008) 3 eksemplarer
The Well of Pen-Morfa (1850) 3 eksemplarer
The Classic Gothic Horror Collection (2021) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Morton Hall (2008) 3 eksemplarer
Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras (2004) 3 eksemplarer
Curious, If True (short story) (1860) 3 eksemplarer
The Cage at Cranford (2015) 3 eksemplarer
The Heart of John Middleton (2010) 2 eksemplarer
Round the Sofa V2 (2007) 2 eksemplarer
My French Master (2008) 2 eksemplarer
The Crooked Branch (1859) 2 eksemplarer
North and South (Volume 2) (2012) 2 eksemplarer
An Italian Institution (2015) 2 eksemplarer
Põhi ja lõuna. [romaan] / I (2002) 2 eksemplarer
Wives and Daughters 2 eksemplarer
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Best of Elizabeth Gaskell (2007) 1 eksemplar
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Maldição (2022) 1 eksemplar
Vida De Charlotte Bronte (1900) 1 eksemplar
Noord en Zuid 1 eksemplar
La Clarissa 1 eksemplar
Delitto di una notte buia (2017) 1 eksemplar
North and South 1 eksemplar
Short Stories Collection (2018) 1 eksemplar
Bessy’s Troubles at Home (1852) 1 eksemplar
Hand and Heart (Annotated) (2015) 1 eksemplar
Ruth 1 eksemplar
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[No title] 1 eksemplar
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Ghost Stories (2012) 1 eksemplar
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Revenge: Short Stories by Women Writers (1986) — Bidragyder — 49 eksemplarer
Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology (1996) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer
Return to Cranford [2009 TV series] (1970) — Original book — 47 eksemplarer
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The Virago Book of Such Devoted Sisters (1993) — Bidragyder — 44 eksemplarer
The Moons at Your Door (2016) — Bidragyder — 43 eksemplarer
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65 Great Murder Mysteries (1983) — Bidragyder — 41 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Historical Stories (1994) — Bidragyder — 41 eksemplarer
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Selected English Short Stories (First Series) (1914) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories (1996) — Bidragyder — 35 eksemplarer
Stories To Get You Through The Night (2010) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
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Classic Ghost Stories: Spooky Tales to Read at Christmas (2017) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
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The Ghost Story MEGAPACK®: 25 Classic Tales by Masters (2013) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
Women on Nature (2021) — Bidragyder — 22 eksemplarer
Cuentos de amor victorianos (2004) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories (2004) — Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
Great English Short Stories (1930) — Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
A Century of Thrillers from Poe to Arlen (First Series) (1934) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer
Horror by Lamplight (1993) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer
Family Treasury of Great Biographies Volume 08 (1970) — Bidragyder — 17 eksemplarer
Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny: 38 (2023) — Bidragyder — 17 eksemplarer
A Quaint and Curious Volume: Tales and Poems of the Gothic (2019) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women (2016) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
Minor Classics of Nineteenth-Century Fiction [2-volume set] (1967) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Dark Holidays: A Collection of Ghost Stories (2006) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Shapes of the Supernatural (1969) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Selected English short stories XIX & XX centuries (1914) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 2 (2006) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
An Adult's Garden of Bloomers (1966) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
More ghosts and marvels (1934) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
The Trials of Love (1990) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Evergreen Stories (1998) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Three Great Novels: Emma/Arme Lucy/Agnes Grey (1998) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Famous Stories of Five Centuries (1934) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Spookbeeld vijf Victoriaanse vertellingen (1980) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume I (2005) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Life and Works of the Brontë Sisters (Thornfield Edition) (1900) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
December Tales (2021) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
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Wigilia Pełna Duchów (2019) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
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Classic British Short Stories (2009) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Short Stories of the Past (1950) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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Cranford er sådan en bog man bliver i godt humør af. Gaskell var inspireret af sin egen opvækst i en lille engelsk by i starten af 1800-tallet, og der er en varme og sympati for bogens personer, der vidner om, at den må have været lykkelig. Men bogens store fortjeneste er, at den stadig formår at give historien kant, for livet blandt den lille bys førende kvinder var langt fra en tilværelse uden sorger.

Bogens fortæller, Mary Smith, er flyttet fra Cranford tidligere, men hun kommer løbende tilbage for at besøge byen, hvor hun er en naturlig del af den kvindelige overklasse. Begrebet skal her forstås relativt, for meget er gået i stå i den lille by, og flere af kvinderne har knap nok råd til at opretholde en acceptabel livsførelse. Det undlader man efter stiltiende overenskomst at nævne, så ingen taber ansigt. En satiriker kunne have blotlagt hykleriet, og en socialt indigneret forfatter kunne have påpeget, at personernes bekymringer blegner i forhold til byens fattige, men det er ikke Gaskells ambition. Hun morer sig over arrangementet, men hun anerkender også, at det er omsorg, der får kvinderne til at tie over for hinanden.

Mary bor hos søstrene Jenkyns, der er datter af den tidligere præst på stedet. Deborah er den dominerende, men det er lillesøsteren Matilda / Mattie vi for alvor kommer tæt på efter søsterens død. Efter en række næsten enkeltstående anekdoter foldes hendes historie ud, og selvom hun på overfladen bare er en knap så snedig gammeljomfru, så har hun stået meget igennem med tab af både ægteskab og en bror, der forsvandt for mange år siden. Heldigvis har det ikke gjort hende bitter, men tværtimod fuld af varme og menneskekundskab. Når nu hun ikke selv kom til at mærke familielivets glæder, hvad ville så være mere naturligt end at tugte tjenestepigen Martha strengt og forbyde hende at se mænd i hendes fritid? Men hun vælger anderledes:

”’And, perhaps Martha, you may some time meet with a young man you like, and who likes you. I did say you were not to have followers; but if you meet with such a young man, and tell me, and I find he is respectable, I have no objection to his coming to see you once a week. God forbid!’ said she in a low voice, ‘that I should grieve any young hearts.’” (s. 73-74)

Jeg nød bogens rolige tempo og Gaskells stil, der fremstod overraskende moderne. Selvom der er masser af etik og moral i bogen, så er der ikke ret meget moralisering, og en gang imellem er det fornøjelse at læse en bog, hvor forfatteren grundlæggende har sympati for sine personer, også selvom hun sagtens kan se deres mangler.
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