Karl Marx placed Gaskell, along with Dickens and Charlotte Brontë, among the “brilliant pleiad of English novelists…” (K. Gaskell also wrote a biography of Charlotte Brontë (vols.

However, in both Sylvia’s Lovers (1863) and Wives and Daughters (1866 unfinished), one can find realistic passages. Hale, who was perfectly aware that all his arguments in favour of a grey satin gown, which was midway between oldness and newness, had proved.

Her mother had been detained at home by a multitude of half-reasons, none of which anybody fully understood, except Mr. GaskelFs North and South and the Art of the Possible by Ian Campbell Eighteen forty-eight brought a good deal of attention to Mrs. In the novel Ruth (1853), the story of a female worker who refuses to marry the “gentleman” who had seduced her is treated with respect, but religious and sentimental tendencies are intensified in North and South (1855). Margaret was once more in her morning dress, travelling quietly home with her father, who had come up to assist at the wedding. The novel Cranford (1853) depicts the life of the small-town provincial.

Gaskell was the first English novelist to work with the theme of the Chartist struggle. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson, (born September 29, 1810, Chelsea, London, Englanddied November 12, 1865, near Alton, Hampshire), English novelist, short-story writer, and the first biographer of Charlotte Brontë. Gaskell’s first major work was the social novel Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848 Russian translation, 1860), which showed how hunger and poverty can lead the working people to thoughts of insurrection.

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