盖斯凯尔夫人（1810-1865），即伊丽莎白•盖斯凯尔，英国著名小说家。她出生于英国伦敦的一个牧师家庭，幼年丧母，在位于柴郡纳茨福德镇的姨母家长大。1832年结婚，在唯一的儿子不幸夭折后，为了排解痛苦，她开始尝试写作。1848年出版第一部长篇小说，以英国宪章运动和劳资冲突为背景的社会小说《玛丽•巴顿》，引发公众热议。狄更斯对她颇为赏识，在自己主办的刊物上连载了她后来创作的大部分作品，包括她最负盛名的代表作《南方与北方》《克兰福镇》。

Gaskell's witty and poignant comedy of country town life A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle- aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Rich with humor and filled with vividly memorable characters—inc...(展开全部)

Gaskell's witty and poignant comedy of country town life A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle- aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Rich with humor and filled with vividly memorable characters—inc...(展开全部)

盖斯凯尔夫人（1810-1865），即伊丽莎白•盖斯凯尔，英国著名小说家。她出生于英国伦敦的一个牧师家庭，幼年丧母，在位于柴郡纳茨福德镇的姨母家长大。1832年结婚，在唯一的儿子不幸夭折后，为了排解痛苦，她开始尝试写作。1848年出版第一部长篇小说，以英国宪章运动和劳资冲突为背景的社会小说《玛丽•巴顿》，引发公众热议。狄更斯对她颇为赏识，在自己主办的刊物上连载了她后来创作的大部分作品，包括她最负盛名的代表作《南方与北方》《克兰福镇》。

The provincial town of Cranford is a community of delightful simplicity and innocence. Yet its values were already old-fashioned and under threat from the inevitable forces of change when the mid-Victorian Mrs Gaskell described them with ironic affection and a sharp eye for the ridiculous. Cranford explores the dying way of life of the 'Amazons' - unwarlike maiden ladies and w...(展开全部)

The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of her art. As diverse in setting as in subject matter, these tales move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in Dr Harrison's C...(展开全部)