Elizabeth Gaskell & August Nemo 
7 best short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell 

In the early twentieth century, her writing appeared old-fashioned and provincial, but today Elizabeth Gaskell ranks as one of the most highly-regarded British Victorian novelists. In this new century she is recognised as the accomplished artist that she was, and for the past thirty years or more has increasingly attracted the attention of literary theorists, academics and readers who just enjoy a good story. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:The Old Nurse Story The Poor Clare Lois The Witch The Grey Woman Curious If True Six Weeks At Heppenheim Disappearances

About the author

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (1810 1865) was a Victorian era British novelist and short story writer, well regarded for her ghost stories in the genre of Gothic Literature.