Beskrivelse
Elizabeth Gaskell is a wonderful subject for a biography–a prolific author, a wife and mother, activist, traveller, friend, letter writer, gossip, dancer, and intellectual–and Jenny Uglow does right by her. This bio is imminently readable, chock full of anecdotes, throughly researched with the notes and citations to prove it, and hard to put down. Interspersed with Uglow’s of the details of Gaskell’s busy life are chapters devoted to literary analysis of Gaskells novels, novellas, and major stories.
