Elizabeth Gaskell

Résumé du livre

'Her art', says Miriam Allott of Elizabeth Gaskell, 'is an important, minor achievement... She still impresses us by the genuineness of her sensibility, the warmth of her personal sympathy, and the liveliness with which she writes about the things which she believed to be important and wanted very much to set right. She is the least stuff of the Victorians...' This appreciation of the author of Cranford, Wives and Daughters and The Life of Charlotte Brontë will send many to the books themselves: either to refresh their acquaintance or to discover a writer of great perception.

Miriam Allott (1920-2010) was Reader in English Literature at Liverpool University.