Elizabeth Gaskell

Written at the request of Charles Dickens, North and South is a book about rebellion that poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience....

Love has many forms, many needs. Some fall into the dark, into the shadows. Forbidden love has connotations of desire, of possession but also of matters far more unsavoury. It’s a delicate facet of love that our classic authors explain with careful words and superbly crafted narratives.

Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford, lost her mother when she was a child....

Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë—the first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist—is a true classic. It transports us with a deft hand straight into 19th-century Haworth, Yorkshire and crafts an extensive account of Brontë’s life.

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centers on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father....

A vivid and affectionate portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid-19th century, Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women....

This charming piece of social observation throws a gentle spotlight on life in a small village in northern England of the 1850s....

When a crisis of faith prompts his departure from the Church of England, Margaret Hale’s father moves his family north to bleak, industrial Milton. At first, Margaret is put off by the town’s grit and poverty - a stark contrast to her rural southern hometown....

When her father assassinates Henry Carson, his employer's son and Mary's admirer, suspicion falls on Mary's second admirer, Jem, a fellow worker....

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece....

Ruth, an orphaned heroine, is seduced and then abandoned by wealthy Henry Bellingham....

Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell's best-known work, is a humorous account of a nineteenth-century English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women....

Few ghost stories are as chilling as the ones written by Victorian writers. Listen if you dare....

Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. This comprehensive collection comprises dramas and readings of her finest works and some lesser-known pieces....

When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England....

Mary Smith relates the story of her time with middle-aged spinster sisters Miss Matty and Miss Deborah....

Elizabeth Gaskell's comic portrait of early Victorian life in a country town describes with poignant wit the uneventful lives of its lady-like inhabitants....

This timeless collection brings together three of the finest works in the literary canon, read in full by some of the very best audiobook narrators....

When her father remarries, the honest, innocent Molly Gibson suddenly finds herself with a new stepsister, Cynthia, who is beautiful, worldly and impetuous....

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians.