Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobooks


North and South

North and South

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's fictional novel North and South is a romantic love story set in the fictional industrial town Milton located in the South of England. The protagonist Margaret Hale, a young women who has sympathy towards working class returns to her home town Milton. Contrast to her expectations the industrialization did not create bett..

Cranford

Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Cranford is one of the better-known novels of the 19th-century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published, irregularly, in eight instalments, between December 1851 and May 1853, in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. It was then published, with minor revision, in book form in 1853. In the years following..

Cousin Phillis

Cousin Phillis

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was published in four parts, though a fifth and sixth part were planned. The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his (second) cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence. Most criti..

Dark Night's Work

Dark Night's Work

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking. The story centers on a country lawyer, Edward Wilkins, and his d..