The Grey Woman - Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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Written in the Gothic tradition, The Grey Woman tells a powerful story of deception and distrust. It was originally published as a three-part novella in 1861 in Charles Dickens's weekly literary journal All the Year Round. This complex tale is told in an epistolary format from the perspective of the protagonist, Anna Scherer. Similar to other Gaskell works, a recurring theme is the oppression of women through marriage, specifically the lack of power and rights that women had within a marriage. This book is considered ahead of its time for its progressive feminist views and strong female…mehr

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Written in the Gothic tradition, The Grey Woman tells a powerful story of deception and distrust. It was originally published as a three-part novella in 1861 in Charles Dickens's weekly literary journal All the Year Round. This complex tale is told in an epistolary format from the perspective of the protagonist, Anna Scherer. Similar to other Gaskell works, a recurring theme is the oppression of women through marriage, specifically the lack of power and rights that women had within a marriage. This book is considered ahead of its time for its progressive feminist views and strong female protagonist. It is sometimes compared to Charles Perrault's Bluebeard. With an introduction by Molly Greeley, bestselling author of The Clergyman's Wife and The Heiress.
Autorenporträt
ELIZABETH GASKELL (1810--1865) is a highly regarded Victorian novelist. Her father was a minister; her mother died when she was an infant, and she was raised by an aunt, to whom she was very close. At the age of 22, she married William Gaskell, a minister, and lived in Manchester. She had a very busy life as a wife and mother; as well, she was active in charity and social justice work. Much of Gaskell's writing espoused social causes, such as Mary Barton, a story of a working-class family in late 1830s Manchester. Her most popular novel is Cranford, a story of the day-to-day life of inhabitants of a small village. Charlotte Brontë was a close friend of Gaskell, and Gaskell's 1857 biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë was much admired. Gaskell's final book, Wives and Daughters, unfinished upon her sudden death, is considered by some to be her finest work. Her writing fell out of favour in the early twentieth century but is enjoying renewed respect among academics and lovers of good books.