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Elizabeth Gaskell: The Novelist of the Industrial Age
When Charles Dickens wanted a writer who could make the cotton mills of the north feel like a moral emergency rather than a statistical abstraction, he…
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Wilkie Collins and The Moonstone: The First Great Detective Novel
T. S. Eliot called it “the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels,” and the verdict has held for a century and a half, which…
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George Eliot and Middlemarch: The Greatest English Novel?
Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people,” and the backhanded compliment still stings because it is…
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Shirley and the Forgotten Side of Charlotte Brontë
What is Charlotte Brontë’s novel Shirley about?
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë: Gaskell’s Classic Biography
What was Charlotte Brontë’s life like?
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The Brontë Sisters: Where to Start
Which Brontë sister should I read first?