Elizabeth Levin Psychology

Elizabeth Levin Psychology

Elizabeth Levin Psychology

Elizabeth Gaskell’s literary fame rests on her work as a novelist. Classics like North and South (1855), Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853) have assured the British writer a secure place in English literature.

Mostly Elizabeth Gaskell wrote her novels with a moral imperative: to shine a light into the darker and more complicated recesses of life during Britain’s industrial revolution.

While the titles of Gaskell’s novels are popularly known, her shorter fiction has somewhat remained in the shadow. Only the curious reader or devoted Gaskell fan seeks out her short stories. Yet they are of a very high quality, displaying the great storytelling skill and psychological insights of her best work. It is worth remembering that Cranford started its life as a series of stories in Charles Dickens’s Household Words.