Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell's place in the company of Victorian England's finest novelists.

North and South

Maria Victoria Farrugia

Celina Irena Kuhn

He went. He went away as if weights tied every limb that bore him from her.

"I ask Thee for a thoughtful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes; And a heart at leisure from itself To soothe and sympathise“

too full of sorrow to cry, but with a dull cold pain, which seemed to have pressed the youth and buoyancy out of her heart, never to return.

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