This collection contains:- Mary Barton; North and South; Wives and Daughters: Cranford & Other Stories

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Elizabeth Gaskell was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer meticulous portrayals of the various facets of nineteenth-century English society, but she took particular interest, and indeed care, in detailing the hardships of the lower-class which earned her great respect amongst her literary peers. Her most famous works include: Mary Barton, North and South, Wives and Daughters.