ELIZABETH GASKELL: A HABIT OF STORIES
by Jenny Uglow
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st. 1993
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Biography of the author, Elizabeth Gaskell. This is the story of a woman and a writer, not a matron, who had a compulsive 'habit of stories', and 'could write anywhere, under any conditions'. And what she wrote of “political and industrial unrest, crime and illegitimacy, a tribe of Amazons making do without men in Cranford, a tragic and scandal-tinged biography of Charlotte Bront“ was far from women's proper literary sphere of domestic realism, though Gaskell explored this too in her last novel, Wives and Daughters. Green cloth boards, cream title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xiii and 690 pages including index.
Light vertical reading crease to spine. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned and a small mark to lower edge. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light page browning. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners, slight sunning/fading to spine, light scuffing to rear panel.
ISBN: 0571151825
Stock no. 1831316
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