The Poor Clare - Couverture souple

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1511700564 ISBN 13 : 9781511700566

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

"The Poor Clare" from Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era (1810-1865).

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

ELIZABETH GASKELL (1810–1865) was born Elizabeth Stevenson in London, the daughter of a Unitarian minister who resigned his position on conscientious grounds. Her mother died a year after her birth, and Gaskell spent her formative years in the care of relatives in northern England. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, a well-known Unitarian minister, and joined him to work among the poor for social reform. They had four daughters, as well as a son who died in infancy. His death left Gaskell so distraught that she began writing for distraction. Her first major success was the novel Mary Barton (1848)—published, as were her first several works of short fiction, under the pseudonym Cotton Mather Mills. For many years, she also wrote regularly for Charles Dickens’s magazine, Household Words, contributing stories and a serialized novel, Cranford. Meanwhile, the Gaskells’ home in Manchester became a popular stop for writers and reformers, including Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Ruskin, and Charlotte Brontë, who became a close friend. After Brontë’s death, her father, Patrick Brontë, asked Gaskell to write her biography. The Life of Charlotte Brontë proved a pioneering and controversial psychological study of Brontë’s family life, and remains perhaps the most important book on the writer. Gaskell died of a heart attack in 1865. A memorial to her lies at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1511700564
• ISBN 13: 9781511700566
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 50
• Éditeur: The Perfect Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible