Elizabeth Gaskell : a portrait in letters
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Elizabeth Gaskell : a portrait in letters
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First published 1980, this edition first published 2007" -- T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Elizabeth Gaskell is best known as a novelist and biographer, but she was also a lively and sensitive letter writer, with a vivacious interest in all that was going on around her.
This selection from her letters, with a linking commentary provides a biography of Elizabeth Gaskell largely in her own words. It is in chronological order, with special chapters devoted to her family life, her travels, her charities and her life as an author who was also a wife and mother, in a period when Victorian society and culture were undergoing major changes--especially apparent in Manchester where she lived.
Elizabeth Gaskell emerges as a woman of intelligence, integrity and grace, with an enchanting sense of humour, an insatiable curiosity about life, a deep regard for truth and a boundless sympathy for others. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Early influences
2. Marriage
3. Contrasts of the Forties
4. Home in Manchester
5. Family life
6. Growing pains
7. Travels
8. Charities
9. The lives of authors
10. Ars longa, vita brevis
Index. -- .
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