First published in 1851, Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Disappearances’ presents imaginative retellings of six stories of men who vanished under mysterious circumstances in the eighteenth and early nineteenth ...

This article examines ethnographic strategies and rhetoric invoked by Elizabeth Gaskell in her influential biography, tracing its roots both to Charlotte Brontë's own self-representations and to a ...

NOVELIST Elizabeth Gaskell predicted her own death, it is revealed in letters acquired by Manchester University's John Rylands Library. A letter written by the daughter of a family friend has ...

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