Sylvie and her lover

Author: [British] Elizabeth Gaskell
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Publish Date: 1998-09-01
Features: Elizabeth Gaskell was a 19th-century realist writer in the United Kingdom. In the history of British literature, she is a writer who focused on workers and depicted class struggles. In the history of novel development, she holds a very important position. Marx commented, "Dickens, Thackeray, and Mrs. Gaskell are a group of outstanding novelists." In a later period, the famous French novelist George Sand said, "What Mrs. Gaskell created was something that neither I nor other women writers could achieve—her novels deeply interested men, but they were even more captivating and irresistible for girls to read."