Lady Ludlow will not have the village children taught to read, because she once knew what a written word did in France; around her, an estate is changing hands and manners, and she is the last person who cannot see it. Gaskell, a Manchester minister's wife, wrote this in 1858; the tale within the tale — the French Terror — is the reason for everything the old woman believes, and it lands like a shot.
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Ruth
Curious, If True : Strange Tales
Sylvia's Lovers
A Dark Night's Work
Women Who Shaped the Novel : 15 Timeless Classics by Jane Austen, the Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott
Women Who Shaped the Novel : 15 Timeless Classics by Jane Austen, the Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott
Women Who Shaped the Novel : 15 Timeless Classics by Austen, the Brontës, Gaskell and Alcott
North and South
Curious, If True: Strange Tales
North and South
The Old Nurse's Story
