The Grey Woman

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A “Bluebeard” novel in which a young lady is married to a man whom she finds out has murdered his former wives and is out to murder her too. What is the main reason why her husband killed his past wives and then her? What did those women do in order for him to go ballistic? Is he suffering from any mental illness as most criminals do? Will his current wife escape from his evil intention? The Grey Woman is categorized as a general, horror, supernatural and detective fiction.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was a novelist and short fiction writer. Her works show a full illustration of the lives of several echelons of Victorian social order, such as the most destitute, and are of attention to social historians and admirers of literature. Her first story is Mary Barton. Her work on The Life of Charlotte Brontë was the first life account of Brontë. A few of Elizabeth’s most popular novels are Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

She was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson in Lindsey Row, Chelsea. She was the youngest of her eight siblings where she and her brother John outlived the early years. Her father, William Stevenson, a Unitarian from Berwick-upon-Tweed, was minister at Failsworth, Lancashire, but left his orders on honest grounds and lived in London in 1806 with the reason of traveling to India after he was designated as private secretary to the Earl of Lauderdale, who was to become Governor General of India. That appointment did not happen, though, and as an alternative, he was nominated Keeper of the Treasury Records. His wife, Elizabeth Holland, emanated from a family from the English Midlands that was related with other well known Unitarian families, such as the Wedgwoods, the Martineaus, the Turners and the Darwins.
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