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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Colby, Robin B. Some appointed work to do. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1995 (OCoLC)604407833 |
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| Named Person: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robin B Colby |
| ISBN: | 0313293732 9780313293733 |
| OCLC Number: | 31754948 |
| Description: | 120 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Industrial Novel: Gaskell's Contemporaries -- 3. "The Hidden Power ... in the Outward Appearance": Mary Barton -- 4. "It Needed to be a Woman, - So I Went": North and South -- 5. Among the Amazons: Cranford -- 6. Separate Duties - "Not Opposing Each Other; Not Impossible But Difficult To Be Reconciled": The Life of Charlotte Bronte -- 7. "Growing Fast into a Woman": Wives and Daughters -- 8. Conclusion. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in women's studies, no. 150. |
| Responsibility: | Robin B. Colby. |
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- Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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