Elizabeth Gaskell
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3 videodiscs (approximately 300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set in a richly portrayed society well-stocked with eccentric nobles and gossipy villagers, this story centers around 17-year-old Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a respected country doctor. The well-ordered world of Molly's childhood is soon to be complicated by new people and unexpected situations. Most devastating is her father's decision to remarry after many years of widowhood. Molly's faltering efforts to cope gracefully with an impossible...
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xi, 483 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader. Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared, Louisa May Alcott published...
43) Cranford
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3 videodiscs, 468 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Cranford [DVDC 4011 pt. 1]: Adapted from Elizabeth Gaskell's novels, the five-episode miniseries Cranford focuses on female characters in the 19th-century British town to thematically contemplate encroaching modernity in rural England. With the camera roving house to house, each drama within the grander story is constructed of scenes featuring dialogue between several gossipy ladies obsessed with moral code, romantic ideas about courtship, and social...
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Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books' new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage, curated with Varla's sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual. In the 1859 Christmas edition of his regular publication, All Year Round, Charles Dickens solicited his favorite authors to take up residence...
45) A House to Let
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Compiled by Charles Dickens, and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and Adelaide Anne Procter, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. Advised by her doctor to have a change of scenery, the elderly Sophonisba takes up lodgings in London. Immediately intrigued by a nearby "house to let," she charges her two warring attendants, Trottle and Jarber, to unearth the secret...
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The second of CSA Word's popular women's short story collections
This excellent production lifts the curtain on some forgotten stories - The Scotsman
The Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 2 is a celebration of iconic female writers from the 19th and 20th centuries; featuring eight full-length stories relating the many experiences and complexities of womanhood. This collection brings together stories by Katherine Mansfield, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth...
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"Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages" by Henry James, Thomas Hardy, George Moore, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Walter Besant. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously...
49) A House to Let
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A fantastic experiment in literary collaboration by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Ann Procter. Dickens wrote the outline for this short Christmas story, as well as the chapter 'Going into Society' and co-writing the first and last chapters with fellow author Wilkie Collins, who also contributed the chapter 'Trottle's Report'. Gaskell and Proctor provided the chapters 'The Manchester Marriage' and 'Three Evenings in...