The Moorland Cottage
Gaskell Blog © Katherine C. Introduction to the Novel Writing and Publishing History of The Moorland Cottage Chapter One Summary and Analysis A Visual Tour of the Opening Chapter Visual Annotation of Moorland… Read More
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April Showers 24: Daily Quotes from Elizabeth Gaskell
The autumn drifted away through all its seasons; the golden corn-harvest, the walks through the stubble fields, and rambles into hazel-copses in search of nuts; the stripping of the apple-orchards of their ruddy… Read More
April Showers 22: Daily Quotes from Elizabeth Gaskell
The room which she inhabited was large and pleasant; four tall windows looked out upon a lawn dotted over with flower-beds, and melting away into a small wood, in the centre of which… Read More
April Showers 21: Daily Quotes from Elizabeth Gaskell
My father called this idea of hers “great nonsense,” and “wondered how tradespeople were to get on if there was to be a continual consulting of each other’s interests, which would put a… Read More
April Showers 20: Daily Quotes from Elizabeth Gaskell
‘Yes,’ said Margaret, rather sadly, remembering the never-ending commotion about trifles that had been going on for more than a month past: ‘I wonder if a marriage must always be preceded by what… Read More
April Showers 19: Daily Quotes from Elizabeth Gaskell
William and Margaret Dixon were rather superior people, of a character belonging–as far as I have seen–exclusively to the class of Westmoreland and Cumberland statesmen–just, independent, upright; not given to much speaking; kind-hearted,… Read More
April Showers 18: Daily Quotes from Elizabeth Gaskell
Still Ellinor had a secret perennial source of sunshine in her heart; whenever she thought of Ralph she could not feel much oppression from the present unspoken and indistinct gloom. – A Dark… Read More
