I've just started {happily, finally} reading Wives and Daughters, and as I was looking for a cover image from my {new, replacing the older paperback with the tiny print) Vintage Gaskell edition, I came across this, from the illustrator's web site:
Her name is Linda Florence, and she also did the cover art for my Vintage Gaskell edition of Cranford.
They're stunning. Some of us are so good at noticing and appreciating book covers; this lapse has inspired me to do that more.
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I've been meaning to read Wives and Daughters for quite some time now. In a crazy state of packing things up for an eventual move, so maybe I need to dig it out. I love the creative and artistic ways that book covers are represented. I will admit that I am swayed by that sometimes...
I really want to read Wives and daughters, but as I have read two Gaskells this year already and there aren't so many left I'm going to wait a while. I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts, and I love those Vintage covers.
Just beautiful! I'm hoping to read Cranford in the fall...
I just read North and South a couple of weeks ago, I specifically ordered the Vintage version because I loved the cover (and the introduction by Jenny Uglow).
I don't have the Vintage edition of Wives & Daughters because I wanted the older Penguin version (2001 Masterpiece tie-in). The cover art is "Waiting" by John Everett Millais and it's just beautiful, I was lucky enough to see the original at the Smithsonian last year. The newest Penguin editions of Gaskell are really boring.
Love this Cranford Chronicles cover. When I read Cranford I had bought a used copy that only included "Cranford", and I assume this has the other two novellas?
I bought the Vintage edition for North and South just because I loved the cover! I have not read Wives and Daughters yet, but I've seen the miniseries.
Hi, Shelley! Yes, it has 'My Lady Ludlow' and 'Mr. Harrison's Confessions.' I'm reading W&D now, and I think it has some (a lot) of the Cranford flavor. Enjoying it very much!
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