My Lady Ludlow: A Tale of a Changing Estate
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable and Henry Raeburn. Lady Ludlow will not have the village children taught to read, because she once knew what a written word did in France; around her, an estate is changing hands and manners, and she is the last person who cannot see it. Gaskell, a Manchester minister's wife, wrote this in 1858; the tale within the tale — the French Terror — is the reason for everything the old woman believes, and it lands like a shot. Sixty plates of Gainsborough and Raeburn portraits and country scenes, 1772 to 1837, catch the very English world of estates and manners that Lady Ludlow cannot stop from slipping away.
Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable and Henry Raeburn. Lady Ludlow will not have the village children taught to read, because she once knew what a written word did in France; around her, an estate is changing hands and manners, and she is the l...
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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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