Elizabeth Gaskell: A portrait in letters - Softcover

Chapple, J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719077893 ISBN 13: 9780719077890

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2008

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Elizabeth 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.

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J. A. V. Chapple is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Hull Assisted by John Geoffrey Sharps

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Elizabeth 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. It is in chronological order, with special chapters devoted to her family life, her travels, her charities and her life as an author who was also a wife and mother, in a period when Victorian society and culture were undergoing major changes--especially apparent in Manchester where she lived.

Elizabeth Gaskell emerges as a woman of intelligence, integrity and grace, with an enchanting sense of humour, an insatiable curiosity about life, a deep regard for truth and a boundless sympathy for others.

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Elizabeth 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. It is in chronological order, with special chapters devoted to her family life, her travels, her charities and her life as an author who was also a wife and mother, in a period when Victorian society and culture were undergoing major changes--especially apparent in Manchester where she lived. Elizabeth Gaskell emerges as a woman of intelligence, integrity and grace, with an enchanting sense of humour, an insatiable curiosity about life, a deep regard for truth and a boundless sympathy for others.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0719077893
• ISBN 13: 9780719077890
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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