A Dark Night's Work
Author | : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth Gaskell |
Publisher | : Sheba Blake Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2022-01-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3986479090 |
A writer of remarkably diverse talents, Elizabeth Gaskell produced fiction and non-fiction ranging from short stories that offered detailed cross-sections of Victorian life and society to a well-regarded biography of author Charlotte Bronte. The novel A Dark Night's Work is the engrossing apogee of Gaskell's foray into Gothic ghost stories and tales of horror. Fans of these genres won't be disappointed.
Author | : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781021467485 |
Discover the captivating stories of Elizabeth Gaskell, including the thrilling tale of murder and mystery in "A Dark Night's Work" and other works of fiction. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Publisher | : Kessinger Publishing |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2008-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781436544009 |
Elizabeth's Gaskell's delight in the macabre is nowhere more evident than in her short fiction. This volume testifies to the extraordinary range of Gaskell's art as short-story writer with such tales as "Libbie March's Three Eras", "Six Weeks at Heppenheim", "The Grey Woman", and two more, including the title piece.
Author | : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2012-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781290600415 |
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Author | : Gaskell |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2016-05-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781533394897 |
A Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking.The story centers on a country lawyer, Edward Wilkins, and his daughter Ellinor. Edward has an artistic and literary personality, unsuited to his social position as the son of a successful lawyer who takes over his father's practice in the provincial town of Hamley. His legal representation of the local gentry and nobility leads him to try fitting into their social circles, only to be mocked and treated with derision. He develops a drinking problem and spends more money than he can afford to in his attempts to be an equal to his clients. His bad habits lead to problems in his business, and Edward is forced to take on a junior partner named Mr. Dunster. At the same time, Ellinor becomes engaged to a young upcoming country gentleman named Ralph Corbet. Corbet initiates the engagement partly through love of Ellinor and partly because of a promise of money from Edward. Edward continues to drink and overspend, leading to a confrontation with Mr. Dunster. In the heat of the argument, Edward strikes Mr. Dunster, killing him. Ellinor and a family servant named Dixon help Edward to bury the body in their flower garden. Ellinor soon tells Ralph that a possible disgrace hangs over her. Ralph questions Edward about this, and Edward insults him in a drunken tirade. Ralph dissolves his engagement to Ellinor because of this, and because he regrets forming an engagement to someone who offers no opportunity of helping him advance in society. He later marries into the nobility and becomes a judge. Edward drinks himself to death and Ellinor moves to a distant town, East Chester, after the Wilkins's home Ford Bank is rented out in order to provide Ellinor with a living. Dixon remains as a servant to watch over the home and property where the body is buried. The secret goes unknown for about 15 years until the body is dug up during the construction of a railroad. Dixon is arrested for the murder and later convicted by Ralph, who acts as the judge in the case. Ellinor then tells Ralph the truth, and Dixon is pardoned. She returns to East Chester and marries a local clergyman, Canon Livingstone, who she had known in her youth, and has two children with him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (nee Stevenson, 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of 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..."
Author | : Elizabeth Gaskell |
Publisher | : Nabu Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781289466824 |
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Author | : Mrs. Gaskell |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2016-06-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781332806577 |
Excerpt from A Dark Night's Work, and Other Tales By-and-by he formed a marriage, which went as near as marriages ever do towards pleasing everybody. He was desperately in love with Miss Lamotte, so he was delighted when she consented to be his wife. His father was delighted in his delight, and, besides, was charmed to remember that Miss Lamotte's mother had been Sir Frank Holster's younger sister, and that, although her marriage had been disowned by her family, as beneath her in rank, yet no one could ed'ace her name out of the Baronetage, where Lettice, youngest daughter of Sir Mark Holster, born 1772, married H. Lamotte, 1799, died 1810, was duly chronicled. She had left two children, a boy and a girl, of whom their uncle, Sir F rank, took charge, as their father was worse than dead - an outlaw whose name was never mentioned. Mark Lamotte was in the army; Lettice had a dependent position in her uncle's family; not intentionally made more dependent than was rendered necessary by, circum stances, but still dependent enough to grate on the feelings of a sensitive girl, whose natural susceptibility to slights was redoubled by the constant recollection of her father's disgrace. As Mr. Wilkins well knew, Sir Frank was considerably in volved; but it was with very mixed feelings that he listened to the suit which would provide his penniless niece with a comfortable, not to say luxurious. Home, and with a handsome, accomplished young man Of unblemished character for a bus band. He said one or two bitter and insolent things to Mr. Wilkins, even while he was giving his consent to the match; that was his temper, his proud, evil temper; but he really and permanently was satisfied with the connection, though he would occasionally turn round on his nephew-ia-law, and sting him with a covert insult, as to his want of birth, and the inferior position which he held, forgetting, apparently, that his own brother-ia-law and Lettice's father might be at any moment brought to the bar of justice if he attempted to re-enter his native country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.