Here is a collection of five spooky Victorian stories by Elizabeth Gaskell. Included are The Old Nurse's Story, The Poor Clare, Lois the Witch, The Grey Woman, and Curious, if True.

We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars--but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, a Scottish mountain; in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, or a London bank? Aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers--how did the war touch their lives?Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, showing how it reached the people. Illustrated with the satiric caricatures of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would transform their country.

The story of the man whose art influenced book illustration for a century to come is chronicled in an incisive portrait of British artist Thomas Bewick that captures the violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life, and the fascination with the beauty of the natural world during the late eighteenth century.

Traces the life of the British novelist and examines her view of women and feminism

A fascinating history of gardening in England begins with the Stone Age and traces the nation's love affair with this pastoral activity, through Romans, Tudors, and Victorians to the present, exploring, among other interesting topics, the role of gardening in winning World War II.

Chronicles the friendships of Matthew Boulton, James, Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, Erasmus Darwin, and Joseph Priestly, whose ideas and experiments launched the Industrial Revolution. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Traces the career of the English artist and satirist, and depicts life in eighteenth-century England

Product Description: The National Portrait Gallery's "Character Sketches" series provides biographical sketches of a specific group of historical figures from the Gallery's collection of portraits. Each volume examines the public images and private faces, the characters and relationships that gave each group its identity and importance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With contributions from both sides of the science/humanities divide, this is a quirky collection of essays on science and the imagination. It springs from the Science Museum's construction of Charles Babbage's "difference engine", the mechanical computer which he designed in the 1830s but never built...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the life of the English novelist, uses excerpts from her letters to depict nineteenth-century British society, and looks at her major works and their themes