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Something for Halloween… The Witch’s Curse In the great pantheon of Victorian British literature, Elizabeth Gaskell is among its most versatile authors. Of course, she will always be associated with her powerful industrial novels Mary Barton and North and South. But there is also the progressive social protest of Ruth – a contentious novel in… Read More

Kate Chopin was not a conventional woman.  She was a professional writer at a time when it was unusual and somewhat irregular for a woman to have such an occupation.  She was unconventional though, before she became a writer and shocked her in-laws with her behaviour which would have seemed most unladylike in New Orleans… Read More