Curious, If True: Strange Tales
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Gaskell off duty: a traveler in France who blunders into a château where the guests are Puss in Boots, Bluebeard and the Sleeping Beauty, grown old; a curse laid by an Irish servant on a Lancashire squire; a nurse's story with a child at the window in the snow. She was a Manchester minister's wife who wrote about factory poverty, and these strange tales, written for Dickens's magazine, are her other hand entirely. Fifty-six plates, from Munch to Orpen, trace the same roads, trees and portraits that haunt these tales, painted between 1780 and 1923.
Gaskell off duty: a traveler in France who blunders into a château where the guests are Puss in Boots, Bluebeard and the Sleeping Beauty, grown old; a curse laid by an Irish servant on a Lancashire squire; a nurse's story with a child at the window in the snow. She was a Manchester minister's wif...
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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was an English novelist and short-story writer who lived and wrote in Manchester. Her published fiction includes Ruth, Sylvia's Lovers, My Lady Ludlow, A Dark Night's Work, and Curious, If True.
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was an English novelist and short-story writer who lived and wrote in Manchester. Her published fiction includes Ruth, Sylvia's Lovers, My Lady Ludlow, A Dark Night's Work, and Curious, If True.
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