MARY BARTON (1848) by the socially conscious Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell is the heartfelt story of working class families in England, of poverty and human dignity. Mary Barton, beautiful daughter of a mill worker has caught the eye of Henry Carson, the rich mill owner's son, but she is also loved by Jem Wilson, a poor young man of lower class.

When tragedy strikes in the form of a murder in the community, Mary must fight for justice and for her true love, in order to redeem those she cares about most.

WIVES AND DAUGHTERS by Elizabeth Gaskell, originally serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, is one of her most popular works, a classic of British literature. Gaskell died just before finishing the novel, and it was completed by Frederick Greenwood.

Earnest and young Molly Gibson is at the heart of the story of family relationships, family secrets, and unrequited love and longing, spanning Victorian middle class and genteel society. When her widower father decides to remarry, Molly gains a shallow stepmother and a beautiful and sparkling stepsister Cynthia who becomes her...

SYLVIA'S LOVERS (1863) by Elizabeth Gaskell is British Victorian literature and social commentary at its most profound, heartfelt and tragic.

The story of Sylvia Robson, the two different men who lay claim on her heart, and the complex fates of their extended families is one of Gaskell's most powerful and memorable works.

If you take the turn to the left, after you pass the lyke-gate at Combehurst Church, you will come to the wooden bridge over the brook; keep along the field-path which mounts higher and higher, and, in half a mile or so, you will be in a breezy upland field, almost large enough to be called a down, where sheep pasture on the short, fine, elastic turf. You look down on Combehurst and its beautiful church-spire. After the field is crossed, you come to a common, richly colored with the golden gorse and the purple heather, which in summer-time send out their warm scents into the quiet air. The...

Elizabeth Gaskell was a Victorian short storywriter and novelist. Her biography of Charlotte Bronte is her most famous work. Gaskell's novels portray varied social classes. Gaskell saw and wrote about the problems caused by the gulf between the social classes. She fought for tolerance and better labor conditions. The Poor Clare is an 1856 gothic ghost story told in a series of narratives. Bridget, the grandmother, invoked a phantom who is now haunting the pure and innocent Lucy. The story is full of intergenerational secrets.

Cranford is the best-known novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was published in 1851 as a serial in a magazine edited by Charles Dickens. The fictional town of Cranford is modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Gaskell knew. The novel was adapted for television by BBC in 1951, 1972 and in 2007.

Elizabeth Gaskell was a Victorian short storywriter and novelist. Her biography of Charlotte Bronte is her most famous work. Gaskell's novels portray varied social classes. Gaskell saw and wrote about the problems caused by the gulf between the social classes. She fought for tolerance and better labor conditions. Wives and Daughters is the story of Mr. Gibson's new marriage and its influence on the lives of those closest to him. First published in 1866 it gives the reader a sense of social change and of the more basic realities of birth and death

The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy,

Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The book is a series of episodes in the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two spinster sisters. Source: http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranford_(novel)