Elizabeth Gaskell

One of my mes is, I do believe, a true Christian – (only people cal her socialist and communist), another of my mes is a wife and mother, and highly delighted at the delight of everyone in the house… Now that’s my “social” self I suppose. Then again I’ve another self with a full taste for beauty and convenice which is pleased on its own account. How am I to reoncile all these warring memebers?

- Elizabeth Gaskell’s letter to Eliza (Tottie) Fox
April 1850

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 Biography: Birth, Childhood, & Education

• Gaskell’s Manchester Home 84 Plymouth Grove
• Living at Elizabeth Gaskell’s Residence: An Interview with Monica Fairview
• 84 Plymouth Grove Architect: Richard Lane

The Literary and Art World of the 19th Century

• Elizabeth Gaskell and Effie Ruskin, née Gray, later Lady Millais 

Excerpts from her Letters

• 1841, June 12th to John Pierpont
• 1846, February 23 to Barbara Fergusson
• 1852, March 17 to Octavian Blewitt
• 1852, November 20 to Mary Green
• 1853, May 2 to Mrs. Ann Coltman, née Byerley
• 1856, Spring to James Nasmyth
• 1856, March 15 to Harriet Anderson née Carr
• 1858, April 13 to Lady Mary Fielding
• 1858, June 22 to Harriette Bright
• 1859, July 22nd to Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• 1860, August 22 to Frederick Chapman
• 1860, December 14 to Mr. Edward E. Hale
• 1861, September 13 to Harriet Martineau
• 1862, April 25th to Florence Nightingale
• 1863, January 28 to a lady with the surname of James
• 1863, February 9th to: John M.F. Ludlow
• 1865, February 24 to John Ruskin …second excerpt