Puchol Vázquez, Blanca Nieves2025-02-032025-02-032020Puchol Vázquez, Blanca. «The Trauma of Loss as a Turning Point in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Works». Prague Journal of English Studies, vol. 9, n.º 1, 2020, pp. 33-47, https://doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2020-0002.1804-872210.2478/pjes-2020-00022336-2685https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/117768ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to look into how Elizabeth Gaskell reflects trauma in her literary works and what she may have been trying to teach her audience through them. As a social and realist writer, she used narrative as a means to denounce the evils of her time, many of which give rise to social traumas. However, this paper will focus on more personal traumas, particularly the trauma of loss, and also how Gaskell handles these traumatic experiences in her writings. With this purpose in mind, it is important to consider Gaskell’s own experience, how she overcame her own traumatic losses and how she used fi ction both to reflect her experience and as a form of therapy. At the end of this paper, we will establish how Gaskell uses traumatic losses as turning points throughout her literary works.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/journal articlehttps://ojs.cuni.cz/pjes/https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/pjes-2020-0002open access821.111Gaskell, Elizabeth-3.0982:159.9Elizabeth GaskellTrauma of lossVictorian literatureRealismLiterary traumaFiction as therapyFilología inglesaLiteraturaEscritoresProsa6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias5505.10 Filología