The Old Nurses Story, Elizabeth Gaskell
The Old Nurses Story, Elizabeth Gaskell
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The Old Nurse's Story
A Victorian Ghost Story

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrator: Natalie Chisholm

Unabridged: 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: B7 Media

Published: 11/10/2020


Synopsis

The narrator - the old nurse of the title - is an old family retainer who has worked in the service of the same family for three generations. She tells the young children about a dark incident that she experienced in the company of the children’s mother, when she was a young woman and visiting her mother’s ancestral home
This story hits all the marks of a classic ghost story: an isolated manor, creepy music sounding from a disused organ, ghostly apparitions begging to be let inside. Despite all the hallmarks of a ghost story, the true horror of the story is in the very real, all-too-capable cruelty people and in their inability to right the wrongs of the past, showing readers how ghosts are not the only beings capable of creating terror.

About Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was born in London but grew up in the north of England in the village of Knutsford. In 1832, she married the Reverend William Gaskell and had four daughters and one son who died in infancy. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848 and won the attention of Charles Dickens; most of her later work was published in his journals. Among her notable works are the novels North and South and Cranford, as well as her famous biography The Life of Charlotte Bronte.


Reviews

Mi edición digital no está completa, al parecer 😒, así que he terminado el relato escuchándolo. La historia es la de una casa encantada, en la que se oyen y se ven cosas. Lo que hay tras esas visiones es una historia familiar muy dura. Me pasa a menudo que los relatos de terror no terminan de darme mie......more

Disse di aver sentito la storia da certi vecchi che vivevano nel vicinato ai tempi del suo matrimonio, quando la gente era ancora solita presentarsi a casa Furnivall, prima che si coprisse di una cattiva fama nella campagna: ciò che le era stato raccontato avrebbe potuto essere vero, o anche no. Il Racconto......more