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Elizabeth Gaskell

Born

in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, England, The United Kingdom

September 29, 1810

Died

November 12, 1865

Genre

Fiction, Classics

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature.

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Елізабет Гаскелл (Ukrainian) ...more

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Elizabeth Gaskell’s books

Average rating: 4.02 · 351,886 ratings · 25,650 reviews · 1,020 distinct works • Similar authors

	North and South 4.15 avg rating — 177,516 ratings — published 1855 — 2363 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, Pam Morris (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 49,682 ratings — published 1866 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cranford 3.84 avg rating — 46,155 ratings — published 1853 — 2811 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, Shirley Foster (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 20,852 ratings — published 1848 — 1063 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of Charlotte Brontë 3.85 avg rating — 8,851 ratings — published 1857 — 489 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruth 3.84 avg rating — 8,626 ratings — published 1853 — 427 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell, Shirley Foster (Introduction) 3.76 avg rating — 4,536 ratings — published 1863 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell, Laura Kranzler (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 3,009 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cousin Phyllis by Elizabeth Gaskell, Jenny Uglow (Foreword) 3.50 avg rating — 2,886 ratings — published 1863 — 345 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moorland Cottage 3.73 avg rating — 2,524 ratings — published 1850 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South (2 books)
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4.41 avg rating — 135 ratings

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4.38 avg rating — 37 ratings

Collected Tales (2 books)
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Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell (?)

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: folly, preference, wisdom

1638 likes

“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: evil, judgement, right

1211 likes

“I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

tags: prejudice, understanding

533 likes

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Polls

March 2017 Old School Classic Poll

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1478, 504 pages

51 votes, 16.5%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 1862, 244 pages

43 votes, 13.9%

Utopia by Thomas More, 1516, 135 pages

33 votes, 10.7%

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, 1826, 410 pages

32 votes, 10.4%

The Arabian Nights by Anonymous, 800, 1049 pages

28 votes, 9.1%

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, 1782, 448 pages

27 votes, 8.7%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 1842, 464 pages

24 votes, 7.8%

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1848, 437 pages

20 votes, 6.5%

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, 1895, 310 pages

19 votes, 6.1%

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, 1861, 176 pages

16 votes, 5.2%

The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 1830, 608 pages

9 votes, 2.9%

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, 1899, 562 pages

6 votes, 1.9%

A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper, 1892, 368 pages

1 vote, 0.3%

309 total votes

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