Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Round The Sofa (1859) By: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Complete Set Volume 1 And 2): Round The Sofa Is An 1859 2-Volume Collection Consisting OfISBN13:9781546929901ISBN10:1546929908Author:Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Author)Description:Round The Sofa Is An 1859 2-Volume Collection Consisting Of A Novel With A Story Preface And Five Short Stories By Elizabeth Gaskell The Two Volumes Were Published By Sampson Low, Son & Co In London The 1859 2-Volume Set Is Unillustrated The First Volume Consists Of The Novel My Lady Ludlow Prefaced By A Short Story Round The Sofa, Which Is Used To Provide A Framework For The Telling Of My Lady Ludlow And The Disparate Stories Mrs Dawson Tells The Story Of My Lady Ludlow And Then Five Other Narrators Gathered Around The Sofa Each Tell A Story The Second Volume Consists Of The Short Stories An Accursed Race, The Doom Of The Griffiths, Half A Life-Time Ago, The Poor Clare, And The Half-Brothers The Novel And Three Of The Short Stories Were First Published In Household Words The Doom Of The Griffiths Was First Published In Harper's New Monthly Magazine In January 1858 The Half-Brothers Was First Published In The Dublin University Magazine In November 1858 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (N E Stevenson; 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), Often Referred To As Mrs Gaskell, Was An English Novelist And Short Story Writer Her Novels Offer A Detailed Portrait Of The Lives Of Many Strata Of Victorian Society, Including The Very Poor, And Are Of Interest To Social Historians As Well As Lovers Of Literature Her First Novel, Mary Barton, Was Published In 1848 Gaskell's The Life Of Charlotte Bront , Published In 1857, Was The First Biography Of Bront Some Of Gaskell's Best Known Novels Are Cranford (1851-53), North And South (1854-55), And Wives And Daughters (1865) Gaskell Was Born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson On 29 September 1810 In Lindsey Row, Chelsea, At The House Which Is Now 93 Cheyne Walk She Was The Youngest Of Eight Children; Only She And Her Brother John Survived Infancy Her Father, William Stevenson, A Unitarian From Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Was Minister At Failsworth, Lancashire, But Resigned His Orders On Conscientious Grounds And Moved To London In 1806 With The Intention Of Going To India After He Was Appointed Private Secretary To The Earl Of Lauderdale, Who Was To Become Governor General Of India That Position Did Not Materialise, However, And Instead Stevenson Was Nominated Keeper Of The Treasury Records His Wife, Elizabeth Holland, Came From A Family From The English Midlands That Was Connected With Other Prominent Unitarian Families, Including The Wedgwoods, The Martineaus, The Turners And The Darwins When She Died 13 Months After Giving Birth To Her Youngest Daughter, She Left A Bewildered Husband Who Saw No Alternative For Elizabeth But To Be Sent To Live With Her Mother's Sister, Hannah Lumb, In Knutsford, Cheshire While She Was Growing Up, Elizabeth's Future Was Uncertain, As She Had No Personal Wealth And No Firm Home, Though She Was A Permanent Guest At Her Aunt And Grandparents' House Her Father Married Catherine Thomson In 1814 And They Had A Son, William (Born 1815), And A Daughter, Catherine (Born 1816) Although Elizabeth Spent Several Years Without Seeing Her Father, To Whom She Was Devoted, Her Older Brother John Often Visited Her In Knutsford John Was Destined For The Royal Navy From An Early Age, Like His Grandfathers And Uncles, But He Had No Entry And Had To Join The Merchant Navy With The East India Company's Fleet John Went Missing In 1827 During An Expedition To India Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:CREATESPACEPublication Date:2017-05-25Weight:1 lbsDimensions:0.47'' H x 10'' L x 7.99'' WNumber of Pages:224Language:English
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Book Title: Round the Sofa (1859). by: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Complete Set Volume 1 And 2) : Round the Sofa Is an 1859 2-Volume Collection Consisting of a Novel with a Story Preface and Five Short Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
Item Length: 10in.
Item Height: 0.5in.
Item Width: 8in.
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: General
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 20 oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
