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Analysis of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on May 21, 2025

Elizabeth Gaskell never completed her final novel, Wives and Daughters, due to her early death in 1865. It appeared serially in The Cornhill Magazine between August 1864 and January 1866. Her last work is considered her best, representing the pinnacle… Read More ›

Analysis of Thomas Hardy’s The Hand of Ethelberta

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on May 5, 2025

First published as a serial in The Cornhill Magazine between July 1875 and May 1876, The Hand of Ethelberta represents Thomas Hardy’s sole published attempt at humor. Whether because his reading public did not expect him to write humor, or… Read More ›