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The intellectual side of her character was certainly inherited from her father, and her genius as a
housekeeper, cook, and general home manager, proved her to be a worthy daughter of her mother,
who had received an excellent domestic training in her home at Sandlebridge. One of Mrs. Gaskell’s
daughters said that her mother was the best housekeeper and cook she had ever known, and those
who knew the novelist in her Manchester days confirm this. It was the death of her son that
prompted her to drown her sorrow in writing and motivated her to write her first novel. Lady Ritchie
says that the saxifrage was always Mrs. Gaskell’s favourite flower, and Sir Henry Holland refers to
this rare plant being found near his early home at Knutsford. A soul that desires to serve and honour
Him shall never want opportunity to do it, nor must thou so limit the Holy One of Israel, as to think
He hath but one way in which He can glorify Himself by thee. She often wrote about the lives of the
underprivileged sections of the society and was open in her sympathies towards the workers in the
industrial sector. In the Stevensons’ days, there were private gardens across the road, which several
of the tenants rented, but Mr. Stevenson does not appear to have had one included with his house.
Some have also been adapted for film and television. Mrs. Gaskell much enjoyed diving into original
sources of information, and the harder the hunt for her particular point, the more she enjoyed tracing
it to its source. In North and South, the novelist says of Margaret Hale, a more or less unconscious
portrait of Elizabeth Stevenson herself, Margaret looked round upon the nursery; the first room in
that house with which she had become familiar nine years ago, when she was brought, all untamed
from the forest, to share the home, the play, and the lessons of her cousin. Charles Dickens took an
interest in her work, and published some of her later writing in his magazine Household Words. She
moved to a villa at 84 Plymouth Grove in 1850 and became acquainted with writers, religious
dissenters and social reformers such as William and Mary Howitt, Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher
Stowe and John Ruskin. Poor little wench! it wanted its mammy, as were lying cold in th’ grave.’
The story of Elizabeth Stevenson’s journey from London to Knutsford would be told to her in later
life by her aunt, and this so impressed itself on her memory, that it became an incident in the book
which made her name. Britain's economy changed from being that of an agrarian and maritime
economy with a relatively small quantity of cottage industry (small craftwork businesses which were
based in the home such as spinning or weaving) to being one based on factory-based industry
involving an enormous flux of people away from the countryside into industrialized towns. Margaret
went very white, and compressed her lips a little more. He could never be got to complain of the
change or distemperature of the seasons. The injustices of their lives inspired many to organize and
attempt to fight the system. Very little is known of Elizabeth Stevenson’s early education, but her
aunt Lumb — whom she speaks of as her mother in her stories — had had an education befitting her
position as the daughter of a well-to-do farmer and land agent. The heroines are abstractions, and the
heroes also. He was now qualified as a Unitarian minister, but with a view to increasing his
knowledge, he went to Belgium, and before he attained his twentieth birthday obtained an
appointment at Bruges as private tutor in an English family. Longman’s Obituary for 1830 stated:
The literary and scientific world has sustained a great loss in the death of Mr. Stevenson, a man
remarkable for the stores of knowledge which he possessed, and for the simplicity and modesty by
which his rare attainments were concealed. This collection contains the complete works of the great
Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, including novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and a biography of
Charlotte Bronte. Please try again. Not in a club? Learn more Join or create book clubs Choose
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invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. But at every mill was some sign
of depression of trade. Everything, the doctor said,depended on good nourishment, on generous
living, to keep up the little fellow's strength, in the prostration in which the fever had left him. In his
early days, William Stevenson was a pupil at the local Grammar School at Berwick-on-Tweed under
Joseph Romney. But in this case each was disposed to make an effort to like the other; only each was
to each a specimen of an unknown class.’ There would, doubtless, be a certain amount of prejudice
to be overcome by Samuel Holland, the Cheshire farmer, and William Stevenson, the Scottish editor
and University coach, who was a native of the Border town of Berwick-on-Tweed, and whose
mother was a Scot. John Barton, the character on which the narrating voice focuses in this passage, is
the protagonist's father and one of the key-characters in the novel. In 1827 he mysteriously
disappeared at sea, but he is held in remembrance in Mrs. Gaskell’s stories as Poor Peter in Cranford
and Master Frederick in North and South, and he probably suggested the strange article on
Disappearances, which she wrote in 1851 for Household Words. Som venen Charles Dickens nyttar
Gaskell ofte romanane til a belyse samfunnsproblem. One of her last requests was to have Gregory
laid in her bed by my side, and then she made him take hold of my little hand.
The novel explores whether a “fallen woman” can be re-integrated into the “respectable” society. Her
novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very
poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. She was whizzing around
doing all sorts of other things.” As soon as she had finished writing the biography of her friend,
Bronte, in 1857, for instance, she escaped to Rome and so it was William who had to pick up the
pieces and deal with the ensuing libel case. Item Number 381226384044 ISBN-13 9781500434113
UPC Does not apply ISBN 9781500434113 EAN 9781500434113 Book Title Elizabeth Gaskell,
Collection Novels Item Length 11in. A letter before the writer, addressed to a high authority on the
subject of her quest, shows her anxiety to be absolutely sure of her facts before committing them to
paper. Even if you had been a very anxious father of a family. Black, white, silver, gold or natural
frames available, supplied ready to hang. His friend, James Cleghorn, was keenly interested in
agricultural reform, and just about this time the first chair of agriculture in Great Britain was founded
at Edinburgh University. Whilst the Rev. Henry Green, minister of the Unitarian Chapel at
Knutsford, was collecting his notes for his lectures on the town, Mrs. Gaskell gave him valuable
assistance, writing many letters to get authentic information. This all fits in with the few facts that
are known of Elizabeth Stevenson’s birth, the death of her mother, and her adoption by her mother’s
sister, who was two years older than Mrs. Stevenson. Gregory is the prototype of her brother, John
Stevenson, and the baby, who figures as a boy in the story, is evidently intended for the novelist
herself. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. She was always glad to accompany her
husband when he drove to different places in connection with his preaching engagements; and, when
a little girl at Knutsford, she loved to drive in the dog-cart with her uncle, Dr. Peter Holland, when
on his rounds. At one time it was known as 1, Belle Vue, but in 1810, when Mrs. Gaskell was born
there, it was 12, Lindsey Row. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies
on your website. Elizabeth Stevenson’s mother came from a truly religious home, and Ebenezer
Holman fits her father’s character as a good type of the best Dissenters of that day, who believed in
the Bible as the one guide for everything, even to the deciding of the children’s names. The patience
and the resource with which he illustrated and enforced every precept; the untiring gentleness with
which he made our stubborn English tongues pronounce, and mispronounce, and re-pronounce
certain words; above all, the sweetness of temper which never varied, were such as I have never
seen equalled. In North and South, the novelist says of Margaret Hale, a more or less unconscious
portrait of Elizabeth Stevenson herself, Margaret looked round upon the nursery; the first room in
that house with which she had become familiar nine years ago, when she was brought, all untamed
from the forest, to share the home, the play, and the lessons of her cousin. Enabling JavaScript in
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London, vaks ho opp hos tanta i Cheshire, sidan ho var morlaus fra starten. Gaskell's reputation has
survived to our own day, and you can probably find her books at your local bookstore. In another
lived Joseph Bramah, the inventor of the lock which bears his name. The narrator of the story, Paul
Manning, takes Mr. Holdsworth, who had been such a great traveller, to Heathbridge, which, from
Mrs. Gaskell’s description, is easily identified as Sandlebridge, the home in which Mrs. Gaskell’s
mother was reared, and of which Sir Henry Holland, in his Recollections, writes: My cousin, Mrs.
Gaskell, who knew Sandlebridge well, has pictured the place by some short, but very descriptive
touches in one or two of her novels. He ceased speaking. He waited for that look to go off,—for her
gasping breath to come. This affected every branch of industry, and especially agriculture. The first
trade unions were accepted and recognized in the 1870s although workers had begun to organize
some decades before. The intense industrilisation of the North and the Midlands, the unrest of
workers and their organization into workers' movements (Chartism, for instance) or unions, the
continued exploitation of children as workers, unhealthy working conditions and the developing
power of a new middle-class of factory owners inevitably became the subject of literature. While
supportive of her career, he was often frustrated by her refusal to agree to his editorial suggestions. It
caught wi’ its wee mouth at our coat sleeves and at our mouths. It was during this time that his little
son, the apple of his eye, the cynosure of all his strong power of love, fell ill of the scarlet fever.
In 1872 he obtained a pension for his historical researches. Yet how seldom is her name included in
the list of distinguished people, whose centenaries, in some cases, have aroused such enthusiasm. A
local historian says that an old way of spelling Knutsford is Knottesford, and in a very old map of
Cheshire, in the Chetham Library at Manchester, dated 1577, the name is written Knottesfrith, but in
the Domesday Book it is known as Cunetsford, which supports the popular derivation of the word.
Born as the daughter of a Unitarian minister, her own adherence to the principles of the Unitarian
movement is evident from her writings. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your
consent. Any visit to the house wouldn’t be complete without a walk around them once you’d
explored the interior of the building and had a cup of tea in the original kitchen. Look for WS-Mary
Barton (word file) in the Widget Box on the right. Mrs. Gaskell’s maternal grandmother was Ann
Swinton (a name still kept in the Holland family), a descendant of John Swinton, of Nether
Knutsford, who is mentioned in the history of Cheshire as one of the two charterers who owned
Over Peover, near Knutsford, in 1666. But when she falls in love, her loved one chooses her step
sister. Bronte remarked in a letter, in 1951, to her publisher, George Smith, that it was “a large,
cheerful, airy house, quite out of Manchester smoke”. In order to supplement his income, he
contributed to the Edinburgh Review, and in 1803 this versatile farmer-teacher became editor of the
Scots Magazine. The novel explores whether a “fallen woman” can be re-integrated into the
“respectable” society. All our frames have a smooth satin finish, and measure 20mm (front face) by
23mm (depth from wall). Driving was always more congenial to her than a railway journey. This
collection contains the complete works of the great Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, including
novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and a biography of Charlotte Bronte. It was the death of her son
that prompted her to drown her sorrow in writing and motivated her to write her first novel.
Everything, the doctor said,depended on good nourishment, on generous living, to keep up the little
fellow's strength, in the prostration in which the fever had left him. Her father had been a Unitarian
minister, but resigned that occupation some years before Elizabeth's birth. Rezensionen,
Neuerscheinungen, Buchersammlungen zu ganz bestimmten Themen. Be the first Join the discussion
Add a quote Start a discussion Ask a question Can't find what you're looking for. It is in
chronological order, with special chapters devoted to her family life, her travels, her charities and her
life as an author who was also a wife and mother, in a period when Victorian society and culture
were undergoing major changes--especially apparent in Manchester where she lived. Not only was
Knutsford the home of her childhood, but it was in the Knutsford Parish Church that she became the
bride of the Rev. These may have suggested themselves unconsciously to Mrs. Gaskell, who
nevertheless painted them in such colours as to make them easily recognisable. Relays of horses were
to be ready at fixed places en route, but for some reason that tour was never made, although it had
long been talked of. Underneath this was the drawing-room, and on the ground floor were two small
rooms. The front room was probably used as a dining-room, and the other would be convenient as a
study for Mr. Stevenson. The front of the house and windows have been modernised, but otherwise
the rooms are practically the same as they were in the days when the Stevensons lived there.
Gaskell's reputation has survived to our own day, and you can probably find her books at your local
bookstore. Born in London in 1810, Gaskell moved the following year, after the death of her mother,
to live with her aunt, Hannah Lumb, in the Cheshire town of Knutsford, which would later provide
the inspiration for Cranford. He took a great interest in Mrs. Gaskell’s novels when they were first
issued, and was concerned to find himself portrayed in her last and best book, Wives and Daughters.
The Manchester Historic Buildings Trust will highlight her status as one of the 19th century’s most
important women writers when it opens the doors to her newly restored former Manchester home
next week. The fact that some of her relatives were very original and somewhat eccentric has given
additional interest to her stories.

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