- Title:
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Mrs Gaskell & Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart
- Written by:
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Nell Stevens
- Read by:
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Nell Stevens
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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7 hours 32 minutes
- Published:
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October 28 2018
- Available Date:
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October 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529004519
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Biography; British; Memoirs; Writer
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Price
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The story of two very modern women and their two love affairs, separated by 150 years.
In 1857, after two years of writing The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell fled England for Rome on the eve of publication. The project had become so fraught with criticism, with different truths and different lies, that Mrs Gaskell couldn’t stand it any more. She threw her book out into the world and disappeared to Italy with her two eldest daughters. In Rome she found excitement, inspiration and love: a group of artists and writers who would become lifelong friends, and a man – Charles Norton – who would become the love of Mrs Gaskell’s life, though they would never be together.
In 2013, Nell Stevens is embarking on her Ph.D. – about the community of artists and writers living in Rome in the mid-19th century – and falling drastically in love with a man who lives in another city. As Nell chases her heart around the world, and as Mrs Gaskell forms the greatest connection of her life, these two women, though centuries apart, are drawn together.
Mrs Gaskell and Me is about unrequited love and the romance of friendship, it is about forming a way of life outside the conventions of your time, and it offers Nell the opportunity – even as her own relationship falls apart – to give Mrs Gaskell the ending she deserved.
'... innovative and emotionally raw ... a mature reflection on womanhood, and falling in love with men who we chase all over the world.'
Laura Jane Williams, author of Ice Cream for Breakfast
'A tender, clever, sublimely crafted book that celebrates the struggles and triumphs of writing, love, and the desire for connection.'
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars
'A truly lovely book – acutely observed and honest and melancholy.'
Jessie Greengrass, author of Sight