3 books to know: Victorian Women

3 books to know: Victorian Women –

Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is: Victorian Women.

– Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
– Middlemarch by George Eliot.
– North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë’s only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It was written between October 1845 and June 1846. Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850.

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–1832, and follows several distinct, intersecting stories with a large cast of characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education.

North and South is a social novel published in 1854 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Gaskell’s first novel, Mary Barton , focused on relations between employers and workers in Manchester from the perspective of the working poor; North and South uses a protagonist from southern England to present and comment on the perspectives of mill owners and workers in an industrialising city. The novel is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the north of England.

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