I was wondering if anyone has read anything by Ms. Gaskell. I know a lot of people have read North and South. But what about her other stuff like her Gothic tales and novellas n' stuff.
Do you enjoy her as an author?
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Divia, I like her a lot of those I've read and for a 19C author she's very *readable* and you won't find yourself so weighed down with more ponderous prose as with some others. I've read Wives and Daughters and Ruth (gawd, that's depressing), and have N&S and Mary Barton languishing somewhere on the pile.
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I've read all of her novels and some of her shorter pieces, though it's been a while. Wives and Daughters is my favorite.
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Interesting. Thanks ladies.
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I've seen the recent miniseries for North and South, and liked it. I'm watching Cranford soon.
Besides those books, what other novels of hers should I read?
Besides those books, what other novels of hers should I read?
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I'd try any of them, but Wives and Daughters is my personal favorite. Mary Barton and Ruth are also good (but not light reading). Cranford is fun to read.
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I have read only Cranford. It was written after her debut novel Mary Barton, and it looks very much like the idea behind it was to mitigate the sharp criticism she was assailed with for showing the heavy fate of the working class under the merciless rule of the factory owners. And she found nothing better than describe the patriarchal world of old spinsters in a small town pretending to be the pillars of respectability in spite of their far from well-to-do status. In such cases it is usual to say that there's no derision in the author's attitiude but only mild sympathetic humor and stuff, but in this case the plan is so transparent that the story is mostly boring apart from several funny moments (and not all of them, as a matter of fact, the episode of the lace re-possessed through defecation, for example, does not seem too funny for me). Maybe it did not look so evident in the 50-s of the 19-th century and the English perceived (or still perceive) the signs of "good old England" in it, I do not know, but it is evidently far from the masterpieces her contemporaries already produced.
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