End of Gaskell Blog’s Chapter
I debated it throughout my hiatus but I’ve decided to leave Gaskell Blog as is and no longer write for it. Although I enjoy Gaskell’s works I feel limited focusing just on her… Read More
Category Archive: About Elizabeth Gaskell
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About Gaskell
Life as an Author Road to Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell’s Publishers: Part One Chapman & Hall and the influences of the Howitts and John Forster Family and Personal Life Introduction to Gaskell Elizabeth Gaskell… Read More
April Showers 29: Quotes from Elizabeth Gaskell
Here and there came a sober, quiet couple, either whispering lovers, or husband and wife, as the case might be; and if the latter, they were seldom unencumbered by an infant, carried for… Read More
April Showers 28: Quotes from Elizabeth Gaskell
As we went along, he surprised me occasionally by repeating apt and beautiful quotations from the poets, ranging easily from Shakespeare and George Herbert to those of our own day. He did this… Read More
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Family Series – her Father: William Stevenson, part I
Gaskell Blog © Katherine C. Born into a Scottish family with a strong Naval background his Post-Captain father, Joseph Stevenson, dearly wanted a son in the church and decided his second child, William, would… Read More
The Rylands Online Collection
Browse images related to Mrs. Gaskell at the Rylands Online Collection. Including some of her letters, plates of drawings that originally appeared in first editions or the magazine publications of her works, and… Read More
Cranford: Money, New World vs. Old
© Gaskell Blog Captain Brown sees his poverty as something he can remedy by working for the railroad, it’s a basic modern view that we take for-granted while reading Cranford; the idea of being… Read More
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Apperance, Part One: The Marble Bust
© Gaskell Blog The marble bust of Elizabeth was sculpted c. 1829-31 before her marriage to the Rev. William Gaskell. Mr. Losh told my cousins in town that he thought my bust so… Read More
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 21st
February 9th, 1863 To: John M.F. Ludlow, editor of the Christian socialist journal The Reader My dear Mr. Ludlow, I am very glad you liked my paper; and please do what you think… Read More
