The Social Realism of Elizabeth Gaskell Who Went Against Outworn Victorian Values (opens in new tab)

Before her rediscovery by feminist literary critics in the 1970s, Elizabeth Gaskell was not as highly thought of as male contemporaries who wrote in a similar genre and style, such as Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope. Invariably known as Mrs Gaskell as if to dismiss her work as the jottings of a housewife, she […]