Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories
9 best books like Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (Jenny Uglow): Sylvia's Lovers, Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, The Brontë Myth, Miss Hargreaves, Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life, The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of Maud Hart Lovelace, Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, Instead of a Letter: A Memoir
| Author | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| ISBN | 0140434224 |
A very powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, Sylvia’s Lovers is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service. One of their victims is a whaling harpooner...
| Author | Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts |
"No geographic or racial qualification guarantees a writer her subject....Only interest, knowledge, and love will do that--all of which this book displays in abundance." (Zadie Smith, Harper's)
A finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, and a New York...
| Author | Lucasta Miller |
| ISBN | 1400078350 |
Following the Brontë sisters through their many reincarnations at the hands of biographers, Lucasta Miller reveals as much about the impossible art of biography as she does about the Brontës themselves. Their first biographer, Mrs Gaskell, transformed their story of literary ambition into one...
When Norman Huntley and Henry Beddow, sheltering from the rain in a dismal Irish country church, placate the sexton by telling him that they knew of his beloved pastor (now departed), there is no reason to suppose that there is any harm in the invention. It is purely for their own amusement that they create...
| Author | Julia Briggs |
| ISBN | 0156032295 |
Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set.
In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts...
| Author | Sharla Scannell Whalen |
| ISBN | 0963078305 |
Well. I'm certainly not surprised that I LOVED this book. It was five hundred pages of details and visits about "old friends" of mine, about whom I read in the Betsy-Tacy books. Since the books so closely paralleled MHL's own life, author Sharla Scannell Whalen pointed out the similarities and differences...
| Author | Lyndall Gordon |
| ISBN | 0393314480 |
This critically acclaimed portrait of Charlotte Brontë looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, to reveal a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. Drawing on Brontë's unpublished letters, journals,...
Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
| Author | Deb Olin Unferth |
| ISBN | 0805093230 |
Rising literary star Deb Olin Unferth offers a new twist on the coming-of-age memoir in this utterly unique and captivating story of the year she ran away from college with her Christian boyfriend and followed him to Nicaragua to join the Sandinistas.
Despite their earnest commitment to a...
Instead of a Letter: A Memoir
| Author | Diana Athill |
| ISBN | 0393338576 |
A classic memoir by the author of the New York Times bestseller Somewhere Towards the End.
As a young woman, Diana Athill was engaged to an air force pilot—Instead of a Letter tells how he broke off the engagement, married someone else, and, worst of all, died overseas before she could confront...
