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
Serier
Værker af Elizabeth Gaskell
The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies) (Volume 1) (2001) 23 eksemplarer
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Novels [Mary Barton, Cranford, Ruth, North and South, etc.] (Book House) (2012) 20 eksemplarer
The Life and works of Charlote Bronte and Her Sisters (Collected Works of Charlotte Bronte 7 volumes) (1872) 7 eksemplarer
My Lady Ludlow and Other Tales 7 eksemplarer
Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. North and South, Wives and Daughters, Ruth, The Moorland Cottage, The Life of Charlotte… 6 eksemplarer
[unidentified works] 5 eksemplarer
The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Novellas, Poetry & Essays, Including… 4 eksemplarer
The Lady Chillers: classic ghost and horror stories by women authors (15 complete stories by Victorian and Edwardian… (2014) 4 eksemplarer
Right at last, and other tales 4 eksemplarer
Cranford 4 eksemplarer
Reading & Training - Life Skills : Elizabeth Gaskell : North and South [book + sound recording] (2017) — Writer — 2 eksemplarer
The Collected Short Stories of Elizabeth Gaskell [Annotated] (Civitas Library Classics) (2012) 2 eksemplarer
North and South (Oxford World's Classics) by Gaskell, Elizabeth published by Oxford University Press, USA (2008)… 2 eksemplarer
The works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Volume 3, Novellas and shorter fiction II, Round the Sofa, and Tales from Household… (2017) 2 eksemplarer
Antología de relatos románticos tormentosos (Clásicos ilustrados) (Spanish Edition) (2022) 2 eksemplarer
The Cage at Cranford and Other Stories 2 eksemplarer
Wives and Daughters 2 eksemplarer
Mrs Gaskell"s works pocket edition Mary Barton, and Other Tales. Cranford, and Other Tales. Ruth, and Other Tales,… (1890) 2 eksemplarer
El matrimonio de Manchester (texto bilingüe) 1 eksemplar
Cranford; and Moorland Cottage 1 eksemplar
(all) 1 eksemplar
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs. Gaskell-Volume 2: Including One Novel 'a Dark Night's… (2012) 1 eksemplar
Gaskell, Elisabeth Archive 1 eksemplar
Cranford and Other Stories 1 eksemplar
Esposas e Hijas [DVD] 1 eksemplar
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs. Gaskell-Volume 1: Including Three Novellas 'Lois the Witch,… (2012) 1 eksemplar
Hand in A Wisker Cranford 1 eksemplar
The English Christmas 1 eksemplar
Cranford by Mrs Gaskell 1 eksemplar
Martha Preston 1 eksemplar
LibriVox Christmas Short Works Collection 2010 1 eksemplar
Life in Manchester (1847) 1 eksemplar
Two Fragments Of Ghost Stories 1 eksemplar
The Collected Works of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2015) 1 eksemplar
English Short Stories 1 eksemplar
Short stories. Selections^Four short stories / Elizabeth Gaskell ; introduced by Anna Walters 1 eksemplar
Elizabeth Gaskell 1 eksemplar
Clopton House 1 eksemplar
Cranford, and Mary Barton, etc 1 eksemplar
Cranford and other tales 1 eksemplar
Cranford ... Edited by Norman Hepple 1 eksemplar
Libbie Marsh's three eras, and other tales 1 eksemplar
Norte y Sur 1 eksemplar
The Shah's English Gardener 1 eksemplar
LibriVox Christmas Short Works Collection 2007 1 eksemplar
Cousin Phillis: To which are added: Lois the Witch, The crooked branch, Curious if true, Right at last, The grey woman, (1972) 1 eksemplar
Gaskell Shorter Works 1 eksemplar
Disappearances 1 eksemplar
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Supernatural Stories (tales of ghosts and mystery: The Grey Woman, Lois the Witch,… (2018) 1 eksemplar
Infância e Amores de Margaret Brown 1 eksemplar
O Natal de Tempestades & Bonança 1 eksemplar
Noord en Zuid 1 eksemplar
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Works 1 eksemplar
La Clarissa 1 eksemplar
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Novels A Biography of the Author (The Greatest Writers of All Time) (2017) 1 eksemplar
Grey Woman and Other Tales 1 eksemplar
North and South 1 eksemplar
LibriVox Christmas Short Works Collection 2016 1 eksemplar
Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Warm You in Cold Weather: Little Women And Good Wives & The Cranford Chronicles (2012) 1 eksemplar
Mary Burton, Wives and Daughters #, 1 eksemplar
Elizabeth Gaskell's Collected Works: Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, Wives and Daughters, and More! (26… (2014) 1 eksemplar
Ruth 1 eksemplar
Cranford and Mary Barton 1 eksemplar
All the Year Round. Bound Volume of Issues 177 to 200 from September 13, 1862 to February 21, 1863 (1863) 1 eksemplar
Cranford. Folio Society edition 1 eksemplar
[No title] 1 eksemplar
SYLVIA’S LOVERS 1 eksemplar
[Penguin English Library North and South (The Penguin English Library)] [By: Gaskell, Elizabeth] [May, 2012] 1 eksemplar
All'ultimo momento 1 eksemplar
Mi prima Filis novela 1 eksemplar
Vita di Charlotte Brontë 1 eksemplar
Le nozze di Manchester 1 eksemplar
Silvia's Lovers 1 eksemplar
Curioso, se fosse vero 1 eksemplar
Cousin Phillis & Other Tales 1 eksemplar
Works of Mrs. Gaskell 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Bidragyder — 147 eksemplarer
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume One (2016) — Bidragyder — 134 eksemplarer
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917 (2018) — Bidragyder — 92 eksemplarer
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 (2020) — Bidragyder — 84 eksemplarer
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 77 eksemplarer
The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories (The Connoisseur's Collections) (1900) — Bidragyder — 57 eksemplarer
The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers (2009) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Bidragyder — 42 eksemplarer
The Book of the Dead: Thirteen Classic Tales of the Supernatural (1986) — Bidragyder — 35 eksemplarer
The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection (Wives and Daughters / Cranford / North and South) (2014) — Original Books — 34 eksemplarer
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror (2019) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies (1967) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
Cranford: The Collection [Cranford & Return to Cranford TV series] (2008) — Original book — 27 eksemplarer
Regarding Jane Eyre: Writers Respond to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1997) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century (1983) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Selected English Short Stories: XIX & XX Centuries (Third Series) (1921) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Short Stories by Kate Chopin, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Olive Schreiner (1998) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
English short stories of the nineteenth century — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
- Andre navne
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Stevenson, Elizabeth Cleghorn (birth name) - Fødselsdato
- 1810-09-29
- Dødsdag
- 1865-11-12
- Begravelsessted
- Brook Street Chapel graveyard, Knutsford, Cheshire, England, UK
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- England, UK
- Fødested
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Holybourne, Hampshire, England, UK
- Dødsårsag
- heart attack
- Bopæl
- Lindsay Row (now 93 Cheyne Walk)
Heathwaite, Heathside, Knutsford, Cheshire, England, UK
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Barford, Warwickshire, England, UK
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK (vis alle 7)
Plymouth Grove, Manchester, England, UK - Uddannelse
- Avonbank School, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, UK
Barford House - Erhverv
- novelist
short story writer
biographer
ghost story writer - Relationer
- Gaskell, Jane (great-great-great-grand-niece)
Stevenson, William (father)
Stevenson, John (brother)
Holland, Bryan T. (grandson)
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Discussions
Group read: Curious, If True by Elizabeth Gaskell / The Lifted Veil by George Eliot i Virago Modern Classics (maj 6)
January 2024: Elizabeth Gaskell i Monthly Author Reads (januar 27)
Victorian Q2 Read-Along: North and South i Club Read 2022 (september 2022)
Group Read, December 2021: North and South i 1001 Books to read before you die (december 2021)
Group Read, January 2017: Cranford i 1001 Books to read before you die (februar 2017)
1816: Charlotte Brontë - Resources and General Discussion i Literary Centennials (januar 2016)
July Group Read: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell i 2014 Category Challenge (august 2014)
North and South, Chapters 27-52 (Spoiler Thread) i 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (januar 2012)
North and South, Chapters 1-26 (Spoiler Thread) i 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (december 2011)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Non-Spoiler Thread) i 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (december 2011)
Anyone care to discuss, or read and discuss, 'Sylvia's Lovers' by Elizabeth Gaskell? i Girlybooks (oktober 2011)
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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.… (mere)