Yet so controversial was another of Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels to her Victorian readers that it was banned in many households, including her own, being, as she described it, “not a book for ...

The clue was in the name she used on her books - not Elizabeth Gaskell but Mrs Gaskell. It distinguished her from other women writers of the time, such as Jane Austen and George Eliot, who were ...

It is 170 years since Elizabeth Gaskell first published her most popular work Cranford but thanks to more recent period dramas, the author's novels are seeing a surge of interest from new ...

The correspondence between Elizabeth ... Gaskell also discusses difficulties with her most controversial novel ‘Ruth’ published in 1853. The novel dealt with unmarried motherhood and Gaskell was ...

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