EG
wrote Mary Barton following the death of her ten-month-old son in 1845. Johann Ludwig Uhland
's Auf der Überfahrt, from which she takes one of her epigraphs, refers to two from the spirit-land...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Gaskell
While on holiday in Wales, EG
's children Marianne
and Willie
became ill with scarlet fever; Willie, her only surviving son, died on 10 August.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Gaskell
After the birth of Florence, her third surviving daughter, EG
had a son, apparently unnamed, who died as a baby. Her only son to survive long was William
, who was born on 23 October 1844.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
