The Old Nurse's Story: A Victorian Ghost Story

Written by Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by Natalie Chisholm

The narrator - the old nurse of the title - is an old family retainer who has worked in the service of the same family for three generations. She tells the young children about a dark incident that she experienced in the company of the children’s mother, when she was a young woman and visiting her mother’s ancestral home
This story hits all the marks of a classic ghost story: an isolated manor, creepy music sounding from a disused organ, ghostly apparitions begging to be let inside. Despite all the hallmarks of a ghost story, the true horror of the story is in the very real, all-too-capable cruelty people and in their inability to right the wrongs of the past, showing readers how ghosts are not the only beings capable of creating terror.

• Language: English
• Publisher: B7 Media
• Release date: Nov 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781906577490

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

Reviews for The Old Nurse's Story

[Karen Chandler · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It is a short, interesting storyline with a sad ending.