聚合作者:E.C. Gaskell

A Dark Night's Work 一晚的工作

A Dark Night's Work 一晚的工作

作者：E.C. Gaskell

时间：2020-12-30

（II） A Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novella by Elizabeth Gaskell. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens who felt that the altered title would be more striking. The story centers on Ellinor Wilkins and her father Edward Wilkins, a country lawyer in England. Having lost her mother and sister at a very young age, Ellinor develops an intense bond with her father. Her bond is so strong that Ellinor is also blind to her father's faults. As Ellinor grows into adulthood, she is engaged to a young man of a noble family. Just at that time, tragedy strikes. Mr. Wilkins, in a fit of drunken rage, commits murder. Desperate to avoid the disgrace, Ellinor, her father and a family servant hide the body. After that, the story is chiefly concerned with the effects of a guilty conscious. Each person concerned deals with the guilt in devastating ways and the effects are far-reaching into the future. The work focuses on the realistic analysis of character and emotion, rather than melodrama.
Mary Barton 玛丽·巴顿

Mary Barton 玛丽·巴顿

作者：E.C. Gaskell

时间：2021-01-21

（IV） 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. It is subtitled 'A Tale of Manchester Life'. The novel begins in Manchester, where we are introduced to the Bartons and the Wilsons, two working-class families. John Barton is a questioner of the distribution of wealth and the relations between rich and poor. Soon his wife dies—he blames it on her grief over the disappearance of her sister Esther. Having already lost his son Tom at a young age, Barton is left to raise his daughter, Mary, alone and now falls into depression and begins to involve himself in the Chartist, trade-union movement. Gaskell's desire to accurately represent the poverty of industrial Manchester is evident in a record of a visit she made to the home of a local labourer. It is a subject of some debate whether the first person narrator in Mary Barton is synonymous with Gaskell.
My Lady Ludlow 勒德洛夫人

My Lady Ludlow 勒德洛夫人

作者：E.C. Gaskell

时间：2021-02-17

（I） My Lady Ludlow (1859) by Elizabeth Gaskell is a long novella. A captivating tale of an aristocratic lady and her personal development in the face of social and political change. Initially, her deeply-embedded prejudices do not make her receptive to any changes in the existing system. However, her kind heart battles against the rigidity ingrained in her and wins. The book also provides a vivid picture of the political scenario through its glimpses of the French Revolution. Engrossing! It recounts the daily lives of the widowed Lady Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo, and their caring for other single women and girls. It is also concerned with Lady Ludlow's man of business, Mr Horner, and a poacher's son named Harry Gregson whose education he provides for. With Cranford, The Last Generation in England and Mr. Harrison's Confessions, it was adapted for TV in 2007 as Cranford. This beloved novella offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of women in the nineteenth century, particularly those who were widowed or unmarried. The lack of legal rights afforded to these women may come as a shock to contemporary readers, but Gaskell addresses the unique challenges they faced -- and often triumphed over -- with grace and keen insight.
North and South 北与南

North and South 北与南

作者：E.C. Gaskell

时间：2021-02-17

（I） North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indicates a major theme of the book: the contrast between the way of life in the industrial north of England and the wealthier south, although it was only under pressure from her publishers that Gaskell changed the title from its original, Margaret Hale. The book is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The heroine of the story, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England. The town is modeled after Manchester, where Gaskell lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. Gaskell herself worked among the poor and knew at first hand the misery of the industrial areas.
North and South北与南

North and South北与南

作者：E.C. Gaskell

时间：2021-01-17

（IV） North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indicates a major theme of the book: the contrast between the way of life in the industrial north of England and the wealthier south, although it was only under pressure from her publishers that Gaskell changed the title from its original, Margaret Hale. The book is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The heroine of the story, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England. The town is modeled after Manchester, where Gaskell lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister.
Sylvia's Lovers 希尔维亚的情人

Sylvia's Lovers 希尔维亚的情人

作者：E.C. Gaskell

时间：2021-01-07

（I） Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is a sad novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell.The heroine, Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. But Kinraid is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang. Philip knows everything, but out of kindness, he does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor pass her Charlie's parting message. Believing her lover is dead, Sylvia eventually marries Philip. Later, Kinraid reappears, When Sylvia is informed by Kinraid that Philip knew everything, she is furious.Philip leaves her in despair and joins the army under a pseudonym, and ends up fighting in the Napoleonic wars, where he saves Kinraid's life. At last, when Sylvia realizes she is actually in love with Philip, he horribly disfigured by a shipboard explosion, then fatally injured while saving their daughter. They reconciled on his deathbed.
Wives and Daughters 妻子与女儿/锦绣佳人

Wives and Daughters 妻子与女儿/锦绣佳人

作者：E.C. Gaskell

时间：2021-02-17

（II） Wives and Daughters is an emotional novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood. The heroine of the novel is Molly, an attractive and rather unworldly young woman. Her father sends her to stay with the Hamleys of Hamley Hall, a gentry family. Molly forms a close attachment with Mrs. Hamley, who embraces her almost as a daughter. Molly also befriends the younger son, Roger. Molly is aware that she would not be considered a suitable match for the sons of Squire Hamley because of her status. However, she has always preferred Roger's good sense and honourable character and soon falls in love with him. Unfortunately, Roger falls in love with other girl. Molly is heartbroken, and struggles with her sorrow and her knowledge that the girl lacks affection for Roger.
Cranford克兰福德

Cranford克兰福德

作者：E.C. Gaskell

时间：2021-02-17

（III） A rich and illuminating portrait of life in a small town, Cranford has moved and entertained readers for generations. The women of the small country town of Cranford live in genteel poverty, resolutely refusing to embrace change, while the dark clouds of urbanisation and the advance of the railway hover threateningly on the horizon. In their simple, well-ordered lives they face emotional dilemmas and upheavals, small in the scale of the ever-shifting world, but affectionately portrayed by Elizabeth Gaskell with all the weight and consequence of a grand drama.

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