The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG
's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to...
Reception
Elizabeth Gaskell
Around the time of Ruth's appearance, Swedish novelist and feminist Fredrika Bremer
(who was probably introduced to EG
by William
and Mary Howitt
) wrote: Dear Elizabeth, dear sister in spirit, if I may...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dinah Mulock Craik
Sally Mitchell
compares The Head of the Family to the large-cast family story
During the winter she spent in Sweden she found herself housebound following a sledding accident. She was visited daily at this time by the well-known Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer
.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1346 (1853): 960
Bunbury, Selina. Life in Sweden. Hurst and Blackett.