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
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About Gaskell
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Her Family
Roots (posts coming soon)
- Father, William Stevenson
- Mother, Elizabeth Holland
- Brother, John Stevenson
- Step-Family, Catherine Thompson and Children
- Aunt, Hannah Lumb
- Aunt, Abigail Holland
- Cousin, Marianne Lumb
- Uncle, Dr. Peter Holland
Marriage and Children
- Husband, William Gaskell
- Eldest Daughter, Marianne Gaskell
- Daughter, Margaret Emily ‘Meta’ Gaskell
- Daughter, Florence Emily ‘Flossy’ ‘Flora’ Gaskell
- Son, William ‘Willie’ Gaskell
- Youngest Daughter, Julia Bradford Gaskell
Places
84 Plymouth Grove
Authorship
The Literary and Art World of the 19th Century
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
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