num_pages: 690
description: Traces the life of the English novelist, uses excerpts from her letters to depict nineteenth-century British society, and looks at her major works and their themes
language: English
title: Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories
titlecomplete: Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories
genres: Historical, Biography, British Literature, Nonfiction, Literature, Classics, Literary Criticism, Biography Memoir, History, Victorian
ratings_count: 340
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux