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If you haven't read Gaskell's Cousin Phillis yet, be forewarned that this post contains spoilers. However, if you're like me, y...

I started Elizabeth Gaskell's Cousin Phillis (Victorian Collection) last night. Structurally and in length, it seems to be really mor...

Mary-Laure left a comment on the previous blog entry asking for a recommendation on which Gaskell to read first. Here are my thoughts...

I've finished Sylvia's Lovers and have been digesting a bit before posting my thoughts on it. To aid in the digestion, I read the s...

TeresaAF from Elegant Extracts made an interesting comment on my post about the similarities between P&P and N&S with regards to th...

I just read the part where Philip joins the marines, and the theme of entrapment really popped at this point. Of course, Charley Kinraid was...

Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some wonderfully creepy stories-- The Old Nurse's Story, The Grey Woman, Lois the Witch , among others--and Sylv...

I'm now about 3/4 through Sylvia's Lovers, and while I haven't warmed to the heroine particularly, I do think the story is inter...

Despite Gaskell being a lifelong Unitarian and married to a Unitarian minister, her works are free from overt preaching. She really did let...

I've just started this and am intrigued. I fear it will be all in dialect, which can be tiresome but Gaskell does such a good job with i...