Elizabeth Gaskell\"s biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane Eyre the subtitle An Autobiography....

Part of Penguin\"s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Gaskell\"s best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women....

From the author of North and South and Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell\"s Cranford is a standalone publication of Elizabeth Gaskell\"s best-known work, with a critical introduction by Patricia Ingham in Penguin Classics....

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in an acrimonious strike....

All the stories in Standing Her Ground have been chosen to celebrate the skill, the passion and achievements of women writers spanning one hundred years of innovation. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers....

It is 1840 in a fictional town called Cranford and change is in the air. The Industrial Revolution is just around the corner and with it will come the railway. Life will never be the same again. Elizabeth Gaskell\"s 1853 novel is a lively and affectionate portrait of a town in mid-Victorian England very like the one where she grew up....

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector\"s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector\"s Library are books to love and treasure. A rich, comic and illuminating portrait of life in a small town, Cranford has moved and entertained readers for generations....

Elizabeth Gaskell\"s chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect....

Elizabeth Gaskell\"s Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful, gossiping English village during the early nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Pam Morris....

Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. When she loses her job and home, he offers her comfort and shelter, only to cruelly desert her soon after....

As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell\"s North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between the pursuit of profit and humanitarian ideals. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Patricia Ingham....

Elizabeth Gaskell\"s only historical novel, Sylvia\"s Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service in the Napoleonic wars. One of their victims is whaling harpooner, Charley Kinraid, whose charm and vivacity have captured the heart of Sylvia Robson....

This tender story of parents, children and step-children, mistakes and secrets was Elizabeth Gaskell\"s last novel and is considered her masterpiece. Set in the watchful society of Hollingford, this is a warm tale of love and longing. Molly Gibson is the spirited, loyal daughter of the local doctor....

In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of migrant workers and the breakdown of law and order....

\"A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting examination of changing social conscience\" Joanna Trollope Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants....