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Elizabeth Gaskell
Winner of the Portico PrizeShortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the YearHigh-spirited witty and passionate Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age including Mary Barton North and South and Wives and Daughters This biography traces Elizabeth's youth in rural Knutsford her married years in the tension-ridden city of Manchester and her wide network of friends in London Europe and America Standing as a figure caught up in the religious and political radicalism of nineteenth century Britain the book looks at how Elizabeth observed from her Manchester home the brutal but transforming impact of industry enjoying a social and family life but distracted by her need to write down the truth of what she saw In this widely acclaimed biography Elizabeth
Gaskell emerges as an artist of unrecognized complexity shrewdly observing the political religious and feminist arguments of nineteenth century Britain with enjoyment passion and wit Jenny Uglow is the bestselling author of Nature's Engraver which won the National Arts Writers Award and A Gambling Man Charles II and the Restoration which was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize Her most recent books include Nature's Engraver the story of Thomas Bewick and In These Times a history of the home front during the Napoleonic Wars
Gaskell emerges as an artist of unrecognized complexity shrewdly observing the political religious and feminist arguments of nineteenth century Britain with enjoyment passion and wit Jenny Uglow is the bestselling author of Nature's Engraver which won the National Arts Writers Award and A Gambling Man Charles II and the Restoration which was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize Her most recent books include Nature's Engraver the story of Thomas Bewick and In These Times a history of the home front during the Napoleonic Wars
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