Excerpt from Ruth: A Novel Even that was not so very bad, compared with the next inno vation on the old glories. The shopkeepers found out that the once fashionable street was dark, and that the dingy light did not show off their goods to advantage the surgeon could not see to dras patients' teeth the lawyer had to ring for candlm an hour ca'lier than he was accustomed to do when living in 0 more plebeian street. In short, by mutual consent, the whole front of one side of the street was pulled down, and rebuilt in the ﬂat, mean, unrelieved style of George the Third. The body of the houses was too solidly grand to submit to alteration; so people were occasionally surprised, after passing through a commonplace-looking shep, to find themselves at the foot of a grand carved oaken staircase, lighted by a window of stained glass, storied all over with armorial bearings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ruth, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Forgotten Books

North & South (Everyman's library. Fiction [no. 680])

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Native American Books Distributor

Barron 2-29. Includes "The Old Nurse's Story" and "The Doom of the Griffiths."

Mrs. Gaskell's Tales of mystery and horror

Genre Fiction

Scribner

Cranford

Black Swan Press

<p>Book by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell</p>

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Cranford is the best-known and best-loved novel of the nineteenth-century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. It is a gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. It describes the small adventures in the lives of two middle-aged sisters in reduced circumstances, Matilda and Deborah Jenkyns, who do their best to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. At the center of the novel is Miss Matty, whose warm heart and tender ways compel affection and regard from everyone around her. Also revealed are the foibles and attributes of the pompous Mrs. Jamieson and her awesome butler, the genial Captain Brown, the loyal housemaid Martha, and others. Using an intimate, gossipy voice that never turns sentimental, Gaskell skillfully conveys the old-fashioned habits, subtle class distinctions, and genteel poverty of the townspeople.

Literary

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

In the county town of a certain shire there lived (about forty years ago) one Mr. Wilkins, a conveyancing attorney of considerable standing.   The certain shire was but a small county, and the principal town in it contained only about four thousand inhabitants; so in saying that Mr. Wilkins was the principal lawyer in Hamley, I say very little, unless I add that he transacted all the legal business of the gentry for twenty miles round.  His grandfather had established the connection; his father had consolidated and strengthened it, and, indeed, by his wise and upright conduct, as well as by his professional skill, had obtained for himself the position of confidential friend to many of the surrounding families of distinction.  He visited among them in a way which no mere lawyer had ever done before; dined at their tables—he alone, not accompanied by his wife, be it observed; rode to the meet occasionally as if by accident, although he was as well mounted as any squire among them, and was often persuaded (after a little coquetting about “professional engagements,” and “being wanted at the office”) to have a run with his clients; nay, once or twice he forgot his usual caution, was first in at the death, and rode home with the brush.  But in general he knew his place; as his place was held to be in that aristocratic county, and in those days.  Nor let be supposed that he was in any way a toadeater.  He respected himself too much for that.[...]

Dark Night's Work

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian lower class.

Mary Barton

History

Europe

Ruth Hilton, an orphaned dressmaker’s assistant, is seduced and abandoned by the wealthy Henry Bellingham. Alone and pregnant, a hunchbacked nonconformist minister, Thurstan Benson, takes pity on her and helps her establish a new life as a respectable widow, Mrs Denbigh. In this guise she is able to obtain employment as a governess with the evangelical Bradshaw family. All is well until Bellingham reappears on the scene as the local prospective parliamentary candidate, and then Ruth’s hidden past is brought into the light. Her continuing self-sacrifice leads ultimately to tragic consequences.

Ruth

Wives and Daughters

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Ruth, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel (Classic Reprint)

North & South (Everyman's library. Fiction [no. 680])

Mrs. Gaskell's Tales of mystery and horror

Cranford

Return to Cranford: and Other Stories B Format

Cranford

Dark Night's Work

Mary Barton

Ruth

Wives and Daughters