My Lady Ludlow

No será del gusto de todo el mundo pero a mi me ha ENCANTANDO este libro. No puede ser más costumbrista; una anciana narra su niñez y juventud junto a Lady Ludlow, una aristócrata muy peculiar, con un fuerte sentido del honor y las tradiciones pero muy buen corazón. Esta historia esconde muchas otras......more

I am trying hard to finish this book before a trip, but I must say it is slow going with the 64-page digression to tell a story from the French Revolution. Sixty-four pages. Digression. French Revolution. Elizabeth Gaskell is impersonating Victor Hugo. 7/17 Update: Finished!!! I'll take my literary c......more

Slim on plot but fat on character, and invaluable in the insight it gives to the times.......more

One of Elizabeth Gaskell's books that take a look at the British countryside of the first half of the 19th century, capturing in a humorous way the lives of the inhabitants and the way they were dealing with the social changes of the time. The interesting thing is that we see things from the side of......more

This is a bit of an odd story because it starts with characters who are vague at best and then we hear nothing about them until the very last paragraph. The story is told to the narrator who is in Edinburgh for treatment for an illness. The storyteller is an elderly, crippled woman named Margaret Da......more