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Round the Sofa (1859). By: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Volume 1): Round the Sofa is an 1859 2-volume collection consisting of a novel with a stor
Contributor(s): Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Author)
ISBN: 1546929045     ISBN-13: 9781546929048
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2017
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Physical Information: 0.25" H x 8" W x 10" (0.56 lbs) 120 pages
 
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Round the Sofa is an 1859 2-volume collection consisting of a novel with a story preface and five short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell. The two volumes were published by Sampson Low, Son & Co. in London. The 1859 2-volume set is unillustrated. The first volume consists of the novel My Lady Ludlow prefaced by a short story Round the Sofa, which is used to provide a framework for the telling of My Lady Ludlow and the disparate stories. Mrs. Dawson tells the story of "My Lady Ludlow" and then five other narrators gathered around the sofa each tell a story. The second volume consists of the short stories An Accursed Race, The Doom of the Griffiths, Half a Life-time Ago, The Poor Clare, and The Half-Brothers. The novel and three of the short stories were first published in Household Words. The Doom of the Griffiths was first published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in January 1858.The Half-Brothers was first published in The Dublin University Magazine in November 1858. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (n e Stevenson; 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bront , published in 1857, was the first biography of Bront . Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851-53), North and South (1854-55), and Wives and Daughters (1865).