Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

In 1790 Yorkshire, as press-gangs seize young men for service in the Napoleonic wars, lovers Sylvia Robson and whaler Charley Kinraid are tragically separated by Sylvia's cousin, Philip, who wants to marry her. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and appendices.

Ruth Hilton, an orphaned young seamstress, is taken in by Henry Bellingham, who offers her shelter when she loses her job and home; but when he deserts her, she must face some difficult choices.

Presents a collection of nine short stories and novellas by nineteenth century writer Elizabeth Gaskell that explore the real and the supernatural, inspired by legends and myth, gossip and fact. Includes chronology and explanatory notes.

Presents the classic story by nineteenth-century English author Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell that reflects of lives of a group of spinsters and widows as they struggle to maintain their middle-class standards within an ever-changing society.

Elizabeth Gaskell's nineteenth-century novel about class, labor, and religious conflicts in northern England, and the southern woman who moves there, falls in love with the local mill's owner, and has sympathy for the plight of his workers.