{"product_id":"the-poor-clare-isbn-9781612192185","title":"The Poor Clare","description":"A departure from the stories Elizabeth Gaskell wrote for Charles Dickens’s \u003ci\u003eHousehold Words\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003ci\u003e, The Poor Clare\u003c\/i\u003e is a dark, gothic novella of thwarted love and a family curse that vividly illustrates the social tensions of Victorian England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe purposeful slaying of lonely Bridget’s beloved dog unleashes a torrent of rage that surges down through the generations. In her desire for revenge, Bridget utters a fearsome curse upon the dog’s killer: All that the murderer loves most, he will lose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis haunting story of “the sins of the father being visited upon the children” brilliantly shows off Gaskell’s pioneering understanding of the tensions between Catholics and Protestants, and the harsh realities of class society. \u003ci\u003eThe Poor Clare\u003c\/i\u003e stands as an innovative and exciting gem in Elizabeth Gaskell’s oeuvre.\u003cb\u003eELIZABETH  GASKELL\u003c\/b\u003e (1810–1865) was born Elizabeth Stevenson in London, the daughter  of a Unitarian minister who resigned his position on conscientious grounds.  Her mother died a year after her birth, and Gaskell spent her formative  years in the care of relatives in northern England. In 1832, she married  William Gaskell, a well-known Unitarian minister, and joined him to  work among the poor for social reform. They had four daughters, as well  as a son who died in infancy. His death left Gaskell so distraught that  she began writing for distraction. Her first major success was the novel \u003ci\u003eMary Barton\u003c\/i\u003e (1848)—published,  as were her first several works of short fiction, under the pseudonym  Cotton Mather Mills. For many years, she also wrote regularly for Charles  Dickens’s magazine, \u003ci\u003eHousehold Words\u003c\/i\u003e, contributing stories and a serialized novel, \u003ci\u003eCranford\u003c\/i\u003e. Meanwhile, the Gaskells’ home in Manchester became a popular stop  for writers and reformers, including Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe,  John Ruskin, and Charlotte Brontë, who became a close friend. After  Brontë’s death, her father, Patrick Brontë, asked Gaskell to write  her biography. \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Charlotte Brontë\u003c\/i\u003e proved a pioneering and controversial psychological study of Brontë’s  family life, and remains perhaps the most important book on the writer.  Gaskell died of a heart attack in 1865. A memorial to her lies at Poets’  Corner in Westminster Abbey.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305192804581,"sku":"NP9781612192185","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781612192185.jpg?v=1767741000","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-poor-clare-isbn-9781612192185","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}