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The Doom of the Griffiths

Author
Elizabeth Gaskell
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
56 pages
ISBN
9781911495123
Published
26 June 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Elizabeth Gaskell
  • morality
  • social order
  • realism
  • psychological
  • philosophical
  • provoking
  • social analysis
  • adventure
  • family

Description

A Welsh house, a dying patriarch, a daughter named Hyacinth under a family’s weight. Gaskell’s Doom of the Griffiths is duty, a mother’s ghost, the bill for position in a small town. Sovereign ebook. Not a gothic toy. Sacrifice, gender, a legacy that feels like a haunting because it is one. The Griffiths’ power and the girl who has to live inside it. Short fiction of class as fate, and a name that will not let her go. A Welsh name that will not let the living go.

Author

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) widened the Victorian novel's moral imagination. Published by Dickens in Household Words and admired by contemporaries from Ruskin to George Eliot, she wrote fiction that refused to look away from social suffering — child labour, class division, the hidden cost of industrial progress — while never losing warmth or narrative pleasure.