Elizabeth Gaskell (Writer)

North & South

Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and willfulness. When the workers of Milton call a strike, Margaret takes their side, and the two are brought into deeper conflict. As events spiral out of control, Margaret - to her surprise - begins to fall in love with Thornton...

Release Date2004-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count4

Vote Count203

Cranford

A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Release Date2007-11-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count53

Wives and Daughters

The life of doctor's daughter Molly Gibson changes gradually after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into her once-quiet life an ever-proper stepmother and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia, while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.

Release Date1999-11-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count4

Vote Count40

Heartstrings

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.

Release Date1923-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

North and South

Nineteen-year-old Margaret Hale has lived for almost 10 years in London with her cousin Edith and her wealthy Aunt Shaw, but when Edith marries Captain Lennox, Margaret happily returns home to the southern village of Helstone. Margaret has refused an offer of marriage from the captain's brother Henry, an up-and-coming barrister. Her life is turned upside down when her father, the local pastor, leaves the Church of England and the rectory of Helstone as a matter of conscience; his intellectual honesty has made him a dissenter.

Release Date1966-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count5

Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters is a classic 1971 BBC television mini-series adapted from Elizabeth Gaskell's 1864 Victorian novel. Directed by Hugh David and written by Michael Voysey, the period drama follows the coming-of-age story of Molly Gibson and the social and romantic complexities that ensue when her father remarries

Release Date1971-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count6