The Moorland Cottage

Written by Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by LibriVox Community

Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to her wish to marry Frank and live for herself. Maggie's plight for independence shows the change in women's role, which started to take place during that time. But it also keeps to the tradition of an almost Cinderella story: the pure woman does the best for everyone but herself and is rewarded for that. In addition, this is a very interesting story, written in Gaskell's remarkable style. When you read it, you are transported to another time, and place. (Summary by Stav Nisser.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson (Gaskell de casada) nació en Londres en 1810. En 1832 contrajo matrimonio con William Gaskell, ministro unitario, y la pareja se estableció en Manchester, una ciudad sometida a las secuelas de la revolución Industrial. El choque que supuso el contacto con esta sociedad quedaría reflejado en varias de sus novelas: Mary Barton (1848; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR NÚM. LIV) o Norte y Sur (1855; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XXIV). En 1857 publicó la Vida de Charlotte Brontë (ALBA CLÁSICA BIOGRAFÍAS, núm. IV), una de las biografías más destacadas del siglo XIX. Otras obras suyas son La casa del páramo (1850; ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. CIV), Cranford (1851-1853; ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. XLII), Cuentos góticos (ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. XCIV), Los amores de Sylvia (1863), La prima Phyllis (1863-1864; ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. CIII), e Hijas y esposas (1864-1866; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XLII), cuyos últimos capítulos dejaría sin concluir a su muerte, acaecida en 1865 en Alton, Hampshire.

Reviews for The Moorland Cottage

[holly · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Terribly sad and frustrating at times. The mother loved her son and acted as though he could do no wrong. everyone else could see he was a selfish, foolish boy who grew up to be a selfish and immoral man. Maybe it's the modernness of my thinking but I hated how much Maggie acquiesced to every whim of her mother and brother. And even when she finally stood up for herself she made sacrifices to save him from facing punishment for his wrongdoing. But Maggie is a godly character with much more self sacrificial feeling than I would ever have. Very well written.