Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited...

Elizabeth tem tudo: juventude, beleza e talento, mas lhe aflige a certeza de que o tempo passará e levará embora sua perfeição. Certa do próprio declínio, a jovem chega à...

Mrs. Gaskell as she was popularly known, had a hard and lonely childhood, spent with various aunts and relatives after her mother died and her father left her. The young Elizabeth...

Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mothers family and his second cousin...

This story opens with a young girl on a visit to a stately mansion, which is a local tourist attraction. Exhausted and waiting for the rest of the party to finish the tour, she...

The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She,...

Neste majestoso romance, o leitor enxerga os últimos anos da lendária rainha da Inglaterra não somente através dos olhos desta, mas também pelos de sua prima e rival Lettice...

This novella by the acclaimed Elizabeth Gaskell follows the reminiscences and life of aristocratic Lady Ludlow, told through the eyes of one of her charges, the young Margaret...

Um retrato original e definitivo da Rainha Virgem narrado com todos os elementos de um impressionante romanceFilha de Henrique VIII e Ana Bolena, Elizabeth I foi a quinta e...

A vida da autora de Questões de viagem narrada em uma prosa arrebatadora."A arte de perder não é nenhum mistério", vaticinou Elizabeth Bishop em "Uma arte", um dos mais...