Round The Sofa, By Elizabeth Gaskell

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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell ISBN: 9781780006567
Publisher: A Word To The Wise Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 9781780006567
Publisher: A Word To The Wise
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint:
Language: English
Round the Sofa is the title of a two-volume collection of short stories by the famous nineteenth-century English novelist and writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It includes My Lady Ludlow, The Half-Brothers and An Accursed Race. The latter is in the form of a historical essay that condemns the racism and the persecution exercised on a group of people named the Cagots in the west of France. Round the Sofa is also the title of the first short story of the collection. Narrated in the first person, Round the Sofa takes the form of a preface to the longer My Lady Ludlow. The young female narrator is ill and is sent to live near the house of her doctor, Mr. Dawson. After a number of visits, the narrator befriends Mrs. Dawson and expresses her true love for her: But that Mrs. Dawson! The mention of her comes into my mind like the bright sunshine into our dingy little room came on those days; -- as a sweet scent of violets greets the sorrowful passer among the woodlands. It is Mrs. Dawson who, after long instance from the narrator, will tell the story of Lady Ludlow, the widowed Countess of Hanbury.
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Round the Sofa is the title of a two-volume collection of short stories by the famous nineteenth-century English novelist and writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It includes My Lady Ludlow, The Half-Brothers and An Accursed Race. The latter is in the form of a historical essay that condemns the racism and the persecution exercised on a group of people named the Cagots in the west of France. Round the Sofa is also the title of the first short story of the collection. Narrated in the first person, Round the Sofa takes the form of a preface to the longer My Lady Ludlow. The young female narrator is ill and is sent to live near the house of her doctor, Mr. Dawson. After a number of visits, the narrator befriends Mrs. Dawson and expresses her true love for her: But that Mrs. Dawson! The mention of her comes into my mind like the bright sunshine into our dingy little room came on those days; -- as a sweet scent of violets greets the sorrowful passer among the woodlands. It is Mrs. Dawson who, after long instance from the narrator, will tell the story of Lady Ludlow, the widowed Countess of Hanbury.

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