Elizabeth Gaskell
Born
in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, England, The United Kingdom
September 29, 1810
Died
November 12, 1865
Genre
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North and South
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published
1855
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2360 editions
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Wives and Daughters
by
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published
1866
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848 editions
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Cranford
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published
1853
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2822 editions
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Mary Barton
by
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published
1848
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1072 editions
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Ruth
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published
1853
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453 editions
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
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published
1857
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181 editions
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Sylvia's Lovers
by
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published
1863
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685 editions
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Gothic Tales
by
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published
2000
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30 editions
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Cousin Phyllis
by
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published
1863
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345 editions
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The Moorland Cottage
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published
1850
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157 editions
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“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
― Wives and Daughters
― Wives and Daughters
“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
― Wives and Daughters
― Wives and Daughters
“I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.”
― North and South
― North and South
Polls
May 2017 Revisit the Shelf-Reread Poll
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 331 pages, 1955
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 331 pages, 1911
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1957
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1276 pages, 1844
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages, 1856
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 325 pages, 1962
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages, 1935
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 464 pages, 1847
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 521 pages, 1854
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, 518 pages, 1891
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 964 pages, 1877
King Lear by William Shakespeare, 338 pages, 1603
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, 489 pages, 1848
Rob Roy by Walter Scott, 501 pages, 1817
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