Stories for Romantics Boxed Set

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English writer known for nuanced depictions of many different classes of Victorian society. Her other novels include Cranford and Wives and Daughters, and she also penned the first biography of Charlotte Brontë. Ellen Louise Hart teaches for the Writing Program, the Educational Opportunity Program, and the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of articles on editing Dickinson that have appeared in The Emily Dickinson International SocietyBulletin, Emily Dickinson Journal, An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, TulsaStudies in Women’s Literature, The Women’s Review ofBooks, and The Heath Anthology of American Literature.Martha Nell Smith is professor of English at the University of Mary­land, College Park. She is the author of many articles on Emily Dickinson, as well as of Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (University of Texas Press). She is co-author of Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (University of Texas Press) and coordinator of the Dickinson Electronic Archives project (emilydickinson.org).Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941) was an English writer who penned a popular series of autobiographical novels. Besides The Enchanted April, some of her best-known works include Vera and Mr. Skeffington.Kate Forrester is an illustrator and hand letterer based in Brighton, UK.

“Here’s a gift the bibliophile in your life will surely cherish. A trio of classics—Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, and Elizabeth Von Arnim’s The Enchanted April—are beautifully bound and collected in a box set. It’s the kind of thoughtful keepsake that keeps on giving.” —Oprah Daily