num_pages: 156
description: Were women writers helped or hindered by an ideology of womanliness that allowed the good mother to be a writer? This new study of Elizabeth Gaskell's major work, including her novels and her biography of Charlotte Bronte, shows her negotiating her way through the difficulties of being a woman artist in the Victorian period. Her gender, class position and religious beliefs all contribute to the development of a complex author who sometimes appears as an optimistic spokeswoman for her society and sometimes offers a bold challenge to its accepted beliefs.
language: English
title: Elizabeth Gaskell
titlecomplete: Elizabeth Gaskell (Women Writers)
genres: Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Palgrave He, Print UK