Blogs about: Elizabeth Gaskell
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The Rylands Online Collection
Browse images related to Mrs. Gaskell at the Rylands Online Collection. Including some of her letters, plates of drawings that originally appeared in first editions or the magazine publications of her… more →
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Wives and Daughters
wrote 4 days ago: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, 4/5 I approached this substantial novel from the unusual ( … more →
Review: North and South, 3.5 Stars
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wrote 4 days ago: This was one of the rare occasions on which I saw the movie (in this case miniseries) before I read … more →
My Top Ten Favourite Classics
wrote 6 days ago: After having just completed my degree in English Literature I thought this would be a great time to … more →
A few favorite book quotes
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North and South (2004): Review
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wrote 1 week ago: ‘I wish I could tell you, Edith, how lonely I am, how cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is … more →
The Only Way Ahead.....the Classics Way!
wrote 1 week ago: It’s the Classic Spin time again! Yup! The Classic’s Club has organized another Spin and the rules a … more →
North and South
wrote 1 week ago: I watched the whole 4-part drama yesterday and I fell in love with it. (MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.) To be … more →
currently reading
wrote 1 week ago: Elizabeth Gaskell ‘Cranford’ A very well-known book by a prominent 19C British author, … more →
We are all of us better when she is near us
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wrote 1 week ago: I recently read Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford and both adored it and was bemused by it. I don … more →
Reading List Round Up: Part I of... a Million?
wrote 1 week ago: Right now my primary duty as a doctoral student is reading: lots and lots of reading. With 32 novels … more →
Really Good Read... I Had to Share
wrote 1 week ago: I’ve recently finished reading A Heart for Milton by Trudy Brasure. I found it on Amazon. It i … more →
On the Importance of Being a Gentleman
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wrote 2 weeks ago: While lazying around the interweb the other night, I discovered a YouTube video that’s been ge … more →
Cranford.
wrote 2 weeks ago: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. What to say about this book? Well, it is essentially a book ‘ab … more →
Disability studies -- Victorian literature; women's & present perspectives
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Adam (Hugh Dancy in key role): a movie about an autistic young man Dear friends and readers, There … more →
ode to four years of the long commute: how will the story end?
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wrote 2 weeks ago: See that street sign down there? I see it every time I drive south to DC and every time I head north … more →
Cranford: A Review (Of Sorts)
wrote 2 weeks ago: A few months ago I read North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was the first of her books that I … more →
North and South or Margaret Hale: How Much Control Should Authors Have?
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wrote 3 weeks ago: I believe that books come with an implied caveat: no book is perfect, and all authors toil under con … more →
North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
wrote 3 weeks ago: I know that it seems that I only read cheesy romance novels, but I was just warming myself up. Don … more →
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Another Classics Club choice moved over to the read column! As always, I enjoyed my time spent with … more →
