Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth GaskellElizabeth Gaskell is best known as a novelist and biographer, but she was also a lively and sensitive letter writer, with a vivacious interest in all that was going on around her. This selection from her letters, with a linking commentary provides a biography of Elizabeth Gaskell largely in her own words.

such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred

but it will strike sparks among many others

'The World Bank needs India more than India needs it

novel and realistic assessment of the contributions of voluntary action to British society

this book details the fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an “ideal” family size

Focusing on A Lover’s Complaint

Through diverse ethnographic perspectives

The Rehearsal raises questions about the interplay in contemporary theatre between the process of rehearsal and the theatrical metaphors that shape our everyday dealings with trauma

which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville

1828–2017’ is a cultural history of the bushranger legend on stage and screen from colonial to contemporary Australia

Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the nation-state through the lens of political conflict and violence

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