Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell
Author: John Chapple
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1997-06-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780719025501

This absorbing study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832 is based almost entirely on new evidence. Also, using parish records, marriage settlements, property transfers, wills, record office documents, letters, journals and private papers, John Chapple has recreated the background of one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists.

Norton Priory

Norton Priory
Author: J. Patrick Greene
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2004-03-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780521602785

This study of medieval monastic life in an Augustinian order integrates the results of modern archaeological investigation with conventional history and architecture.