First published in 1851, Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Disappearances’ presents imaginative retellings of six stories of men who vanished under mysterious circumstances in the eighteenth and early nineteenth ...

Although Elizabeth Gaskell's novella "Cousin Phillis" purports to be a text about a woman, it is in essence a text about men and male fantasies of the female with the heroine's own body and discourse ...

NOVELIST Elizabeth Gaskell predicted her own death, it is revealed in letters acquired by Manchester University's John Rylands Library. A letter written by the daughter of a family friend has ...

On the surface, she was the ideal Victorian wife and mother, a 19th-century domestic goddess. The clue was in the name she used on her books - not Elizabeth Gaskell but Mrs Gaskell. It distinguished ...

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