Cranford
(Sprache: Englisch)
Elizabeth Gaskell's much loved novel of small town rural life, introduced by Dr Josie Billington and with illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson.
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Elizabeth Gaskell's much loved novel of small town rural life, introduced by Dr Josie Billington and with illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson.
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Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A rich, comic and illuminating portrait of life in a small town, Cranford has moved and entertained readers for generations. This edition features illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, and an introduction by Dr Josie Billington, a specialist in Victorian literature.
The women of the small country town of Cranford live in genteel poverty, resolutely refusing to embrace change, while the dark clouds of urbanisation and the advance of the railway hover threateningly on the horizon. In their simple, well-ordered lives they face emotional dilemmas and upheavals, small in the scale of the ever-shifting world, but affectionately portrayed by Elizabeth Gaskell with all the weight and consequence of a grand drama.
Autoren-Porträt von Elizabeth Gaskell
Mrs Gaskell was born Elizabeth Stevenson in London in 1810. Her mother Eliza, the niece of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, died when she was a child. Much of her childhood was spent in Cheshire, where she lived with an aunt at Knutsford, a town she would later immortalise as Cranford. In 1832, she married a Unitarian minister, William Gaskell (who had a literary career of his own), and they settled in Manchester. The industrial surroundings offered her inspiration for her novels. Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her other novels are Cranford (1853) and North and South (1855). Elizabeth met Charlotte Brontë in 1850, and they struck up a great friendship. After Charlotte's death in 1855, her father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë, asked Gaskell to write her biography to counteract gossip and speculation. The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857. Gaskell was also a skilled proponent of the ghost story. Her last novel, Wives and Daughters, said by many to be her most mature work remained unfinished at the time of her death in 1865.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2018, Main Market Ed., 320 Seiten, Masse: 10,3 x 15,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 1509857435
- ISBN-13: 9781509857432
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.06.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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