The eleven stories in this Gaskell collection illustrate the author’s mastery in capturing the innate drama that is present even in the most mundane situations.
“The Nurses’ Story”
“Clopton House”
“The Crooked Branch”
“Crowley Castle”
“Curious, If True”
“Disappearances”
“Two Fragments of Ghost Stories”
“The Heart of John Middleton”
“Morton Hall”
“The Well of Pen Morfa”
“The Shah’s English Gardener"
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was an English novelist and short-story writer born in London and raised in Knutsford, Cheshire, which became the model for village settings in her novels. In 1832 she married William Gaskell, a Unitarian minister. Her first novel, Mary Barton, published in 1848, was immensely popular and brought her to the attention of Charles Dickens, who solicited her work for his periodical, Household Words, for which she wrote the series subsequently reprinted as Cranford.View all by Elizabeth Gaskell
