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Elizabeth Gaskell

Sample Sunday is an opportunity to check all the books on my shelves and decide what to keep

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Decision Time on Jane Gardam, Elizabeth Gaskell and Amitav Ghosh

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 BookerTalk 42 Comments Amitav Ghosh, Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Gardam, Sample Sunday, TBR

Lindsay Davis, E M Delafield and Achmat Dangor are among the unread books on my shelves. Should I keep them or let go to a better home?

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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell: A Harsh Lesson in Social Injustice

August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 BookerTalk 24 Comments Book Reviews, classic fiction, Elizabeth Gaskell

Like her contemporary Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell wanted to expose the human consequences of the Industrial Revolution. But while Dickens

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Mary Barton: A bold novel of social turmoil [review]

May 19, 2019December 16, 2019 BookerTalk 37 Comments Classic literature, Elizabeth Gaskell, Social realism

Mary Barton By Elizabeth Gaskell In the early 1840s, the city of Manchester was the engine house of the Industrial

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Classics Non fiction WWWednesdays

Best selling novel or a classic? What I’ll read next

May 14, 2019July 2, 2019 BookerTalk 22 Comments Elizabeth Gaskell, Kate Atkinson, Raynor Winn

Time for another WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. What are you currently reading? I’m

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Six Degrees of Separation

From football terrace to coal disaster [#6Degrees]

March 4, 2017March 4, 2017 BookerTalk 8 Comments A.J Cronin, Alan Sillitoe, Elizabeth Gaskell, Richard Llewellyn, Stan Barstow

From Nick Hornby’s football-based best seller to the coal fields of Wales – in six steps.

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