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 be the one. It must have been difficult growing up with his future already planned. Especially when he seems to have longed…
Category: About Elizabeth Gaskell
Posts about Elizabeth Gaskell’s life including letters, biographical information, and facts
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 the famous miniature portrait. I highly recommend you to visit it:
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 very like Napoleon– do you? The artist, David Dunbar, was a student of the prestigious Sir Francis Chantrey and inspired by the…
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 best with the rest of the MSS [manuscript]. IF you think its being published will do any good, please let it be…
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 20th
January 28, 1863 A lady with the surname of James, whose mother donated a counterpane coverlet My dear Madam (for you see I am not quite sure if you are Mrs, or Miss James –or else I should be only too glad to address you in the pleasant and friendly way you do to me–)…
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 19th
June 22nd, 1858 To: Harriette Bright, sister of Henry Arthur Bright and a friend of Gaskell’s daughter Marianne My dear Harriette, Lindeth Tower* sounds very grand; but it is a queer ugly square tower in our garden, –which latter is fuller of weeds, and general entanglement than any place you ever saw before, –so don’t…
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 18th
March 15th, 1856 To: Harriet Anderson née Carr, a good friend of Elizabeth Gaskell in Newcastle …When all my four girls are at home we have only one large spare room and one very small one; but between out return from Scotland and Christmas we had nineteen people staying in the house! So I think…
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 17th
May 25th, 1858 To: Louis Hachette, founder of Hatchette et Cie, a French publishing company You are quite right in supposing that I should be glad to know any details of your progress, and literary plans which you may give me. I am particularly interested in all you tell me. If the journalist you have…
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 16th
December 14, 1860 To: Edward E. Hale, a prominent Boston Unitarian minister and friends with the Gaskell family My dear Mr. Hale, …You left us… [with] Mr. Gaskell just going to have a new colleague, a Mr. Drummond, aged 25, at whose ordination you were to have assisted, only you didn’t. Well! Mr. Drummond came;…
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