The volume includes the titular long poem Stella, about the doomed love between an Italian patriot and the daughter of a nobleman, which critic Francis O'Gorman
describes as echoing Tennyson'sMaud (published twelve years...
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
Despite the historical research, and setting aside later attention to getting dialect words exactly right, EG
penned this work, says her biographer Jenny Uglow
, page after page, without correction,
Uglow, Jennifer S. “Manuscript Moments”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, pp. 181-5.