Friends, Associates |
Sara Coleridge |
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Friends, Associates |
Ann Hawkshaw |
Sir John Hawkshaw was known to Elizabeth Gaskell
's circle. Samuel Bamford
, the working-class Manchester radical and poet, mentions AH
and praises her poetry in the preface to his Poems (self-published at Manchester in...
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Family and Intimate relationships |
Amabel Williams-Ellis |
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Family and Intimate relationships |
Emily Brontë |
His eventual position as a clergyman and published author in early nineteenth-century England was, given his background, a considerable accomplishment. Notwithstanding Elizabeth Gaskell
's portrait of him in her biography of his daughter as an...
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Family and Intimate relationships |
Anne Brontë |
Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...
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Family and Intimate relationships |
John Ruskin |
The next year she married her husband's protégé the painter John Everett Millais
. Rumours of an affair between Effie and Millais, and gossip surrounding the annulment, produced speculation and scandal. Elizabeth Gaskell
sided with...
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Family and Intimate relationships |
Charlotte Brontë |
Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...
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Family and Intimate relationships |
Mary Augusta Ward |
From the time of her arrival in England, a major influence on the young Mary Arnold (later MAW
) was her aunt and godmother Jane Arnold
or Aunt K., a cultivated woman and friend...
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Family and Intimate relationships |
Anne Marsh |
Anne's brother-in-law from 1822 was the distinguished Sir Henry Holland
(physician to Princess Caroline, and later Prince Albert
and Queen Victoria
), a descendent of the Wedgwood family and cousin of Elizabeth Gaskell
...
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Family and Intimate relationships |
Elizabeth Stone |
Elizabeth Gaskell
wrote that ES
's husband was a clergyman. Critic Michael Wheeler
speculates that he was the Rev. Thomas Stone
, whom ES
would have met while he was the Curate of Deane...
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Family and Intimate relationships |
Q. D. Leavis |
The Roths were devastated by their daughter's decision to marry a gentile. They disowned her and ceased to give her any financial support. However, this period had its happy moments as well. Q. D. introduced...
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Education |
Sarah Orne Jewett |
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Education |
May Sinclair |
Little is known about the early education of MS
or her brothers. She was taught the piano, and educated herself from her father's well-stocked library of Elizabethan, Restoration, and Victorian literature. Among her reading a...
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Education |
Jessie Fothergill |
She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of...
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Education |
Anne Thackeray Ritchie |
ATR
and her sister were educated by a series of governesses in London. It was not until the arrival of Miss Truelock
in 1850 that their father was finally satisfied with a governess's ability...
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