CURIOUS, IF TRUE: Strange Tales is a collection of five dark Victorian tales of suspense, horror, mood and mystery by Elizabeth Gaskell, published variously between 1852 and 1861.

Includes "The Old Nurse's Story," "The Poor Clare," "Lois The Witch," "The Grey Woman," and "Curious, If True."

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...

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.

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.

MY LADY LUDLOW (1859) by Elizabeth Gaskell is a quintessential slice of British Victorian literature and social commentary by the talented contemporary of Charlotte Bronte.

Gaskell's work is remarkable not only for her mastery of local dialects and period detail, but for the wide range of heartfelt sympathies and understanding of all levels of society, from the highest nobility to the lowest working poor.

MY LADY LUDLOW (1859) by Elizabeth Gaskell is a quintessential slice of British Victorian literature and social commentary by the talented contemporary of Charlotte Bronte.

Gaskell's work is remarkable not only for her mastery of local dialects and period detail, but for the wide range of heartfelt sympathies and understanding of all levels of society, from the highest nobility to the lowest working poor.

COUSIN PHILLIS (1863) by Elizabeth Gaskell is a deceptively simple story of budding young love and its disappointment, as observed through the eyes of a young man who comes to stay with his Cousin Phillis and her family.

Gaskell is at the height of her form in this elegant classic novella of British Victorian family relationships, affections and complexity.

COUSIN PHILLIS (1863) by Elizabeth Gaskell is a deceptively simple story of budding young love and its disappointment, as observed through the eyes of a young man who comes to stay with his Cousin Phillis and her family.

Gaskell is at the height of her form in this elegant classic novella of British Victorian family relationships, affections and complexity.

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...