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Winner of the Portico Prize Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and Daughters. This biography traces Elizabeth's youth in rural Knutsford, her married years in the tension-ridden city of Manchester and her wide network of friends in London, Europe and America. Standing as a figure caught up in the religious and political radicalism of nineteenth century Britain, the book looks at how Elizabeth observed, from her Manchester home, the brutal but transforming impact of industry, enjoying a social and family life, but distracted by her need to write down the truth of what she saw. In this widely acclaimed biography, Elizabeth Gaskell emerges as an artist of unrecognized complexity, shrewdly observing the political, religious and feminist arguments of nineteenth century Britain, with enjoyment, passion and wit. Jenny Uglow is the bestselling author of Nature's Engraver, which won the National Arts Writers Award, and A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent books include Nature's Engraver, the story of Thomas Bewick, and In These Times, a history of the home front during the Napoleonic Wars.… (más)
This is a wonderful bio, providing insight into this marvelous Victorian author. Uglow provides a rich analysis of the novels and short stories and novellas in the context of Gaskell's life with family and friends, which gives a richer understanding of the works themselves. Well-written, chock full of interesting anecdotes, and replete with extensive notes. ( )
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On a wintry day in October 1831 Elizabeth Stevenson, soon to be Elizabeth Gaskell, was writing to her friend Harriet, scribbling at speed, her curling script crossing and recrossing the crowded page: 'Oh this windy miserable weather; I am writing near a window where puffs of wind come through every now & then, & chill my intellects -- you will ask why I don't move -- I suppose it is my vis inertia, and my being in a most comfortable arm chair -- but I am squeezing myself into as small a compass as I can to collect all the warmth.'
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We have only to look at a portrait of Mrs Gaskell, soft-eyed, beneath her charming veil, to see that she was a dove...she was all a woman was expected to be; gentle, domestic, tactful, prone to tears, easily shocked. So far from chafing at the limits imposed on her activities, she accepted them with serene satisfaction. - Lord David Cecil, 1934
I feel a stirring instinct and long to be off...just like a bird wakens up from its content at the change of the seasons...But...I happen to be a woman instead of a bird...and...moreover I have no wings like a dove to fly away. - Elizabeth Gaskell to Mary Howitt, 1838
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Winner of the Portico Prize Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and Daughters. This biography traces Elizabeth's youth in rural Knutsford, her married years in the tension-ridden city of Manchester and her wide network of friends in London, Europe and America. Standing as a figure caught up in the religious and political radicalism of nineteenth century Britain, the book looks at how Elizabeth observed, from her Manchester home, the brutal but transforming impact of industry, enjoying a social and family life, but distracted by her need to write down the truth of what she saw. In this widely acclaimed biography, Elizabeth Gaskell emerges as an artist of unrecognized complexity, shrewdly observing the political, religious and feminist arguments of nineteenth century Britain, with enjoyment, passion and wit. Jenny Uglow is the bestselling author of Nature's Engraver, which won the National Arts Writers Award, and A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent books include Nature's Engraver, the story of Thomas Bewick, and In These Times, a history of the home front during the Napoleonic Wars.
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