North and South
Written in installments between 1854 and 1855. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from the South of England who, due to family circumstances, is forced to move to the North, to the industrial...
GASKELL, Elizabeth
Cranford
Published in installments between 1951 and 1953, it was an immediate success. It tells a series of episodes from the life of Mary Smith, the first-person narrator, and her elderly friends. Set in the small...
A Dark Night's Work
Published in installments, the original title omitted the word "dark," which was added by Dickens to attract the reader's attention.
The story focuses on a rural lawyer and his daughter. In the...
Mr. Harrison’s Confessions
The arrival to an imaginary village of a recently licensed doctor of London enables the author to show us the customs of rural England during the 1800s and the trouble that comments can cause in a small...
Mary Barton
This first book by the writer Elisabeth Gaskell deals with the great social differences in the city of Manchester during the first half of the 19th century. It was a society in which there was no...