A Dark Night's Work

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A Dark Night's Work (1863)
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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First published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. The story centers on a country lawyer, Edward Wilkins, and his daughter Ellinor. Edward has an artistic and literary personality, unsuited to his social position as the son of a successful lawyer who takes over his father's practice in the provincial town of Hamley.

The work focuses on the realistic analysis of character and emotion, rather than melodrama. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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A DARK NIGHT'S WORK.

A DARK NIGHT'S WORK

BY
MRS. GASKELL,
AUTHOR OF "SYLVIA'S LOVERS," "THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE
BRONTE," "MARY BARTON," "RUTH," ETC. ETC,

LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL

M.DCCC.LXIII.

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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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