Elizabeth gaskell biografia
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Elizabeth Gaskell
English novelist, biographer, and short story writer (–)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (néeStevenson; 29 September – 12 November ), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in , was the first biography of Charlotte Brontë. In this biography, she wrote only of the moral, sophisticated things in Brontë's life; the rest she omitted, deciding certain, more salacious aspects were better kept hidden. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (–), North and South (–), and Wives and Daughters (–), all of which were adapted for television by the BBC.
Early life
[edit]Mrs. Gaskell was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on 29 September in Lindsey Row, Chelsea, London, now 93 Cheyne Walk.[1] The doctor who delivered her was Anthony Todd Thomson, whose sister Catherine later became Gaskell's stepmother.[2] She was the youngest of eight children; only she and her brother John survived infancy. Her father, William Stevenson, a Unitarian from Berwick-upon-Tweed, was min
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Elizabeth Gaskell: Biography
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (September – November ) was a British fiction-writer and biographer who witnessed and recorded the transformation of northern England by the Industrial Revolution. She was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson; her married name is often given in the form Mrs. Gaskell.
Quotes
[edit]- Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
- Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
- A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
- That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.
Wives and Daughters
[edit]- It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.
- Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.
- It was his general plan to repress emotion by not showing the sympathy he felt.