Elizabeth Gaskell

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Standard Name: Gaskell, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson
Nickname: Lily
Married Name: Elizabeth Gaskell
Indexed Name: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Pseudonym: Cotton Mather Mills
Pseudonym: The Author of Mary Barton etc.
Self-constructed Name: E. C. Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell , one of the foremost fiction-writers of the mid-Victorian period, produced a corpus of seven novels, numerous short stories, and a controversial biography of Charlotte Brontë . She wrote extensively for periodicals, as well as producing novels directly for the book market, often on issues of burning interest: her industrial novels appeared in the midst of fierce debate over class relations, factory conditions and legislation; Ruth took a fallen woman and mother as its protagonist just as middle-class feminist critique of gender roles emerged. Gaskell occupies a bridging position between Harriet Martineau and George Eliot in the development of the domestic novel.
Photograph of a well-known head-and shoulders drawing of Elizabeth Gaskell by George Richmond, 1851. She looks calmly at the viewer, her smooth hair parted in the middle, with a ribbon or scarf hanging from her head and a bow at her neckline. She thought the drawing on the whole a good likeness. National Portrait Gallery.

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Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father 's ideas for a largely anecdotalintroduction to Elizabeth Gaskell 's Cranford.
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, 1980, pp. 285-7.
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In...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
Notable among MH 's large fictional output are didactic stories like Johnny Derbyshire, a Country Quaker (written jointly with her husband). She and Elizabeth Gaskell swapped ghost stories by letter, but MH would not encourage...
Textual Production Edna Lyall
The contributors to Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign, 1897, included EL , who wrote for it a piece on Elizabeth Gaskell .
Payne, George A. "Edna Lyall:" an Appreciation. John Heywood.
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Textual Production Georgiana Craik
GC also published shorter fiction in a number of journals. This included Alwyn's First Wife for Fraser's Magazine in 1855, A Sketch of Two Homes and the sensational tale My Sister's Husband in 1857 for...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
The title of the series (used in the Bodleian though not in the British Library catalogue) was Tales for the People and their Children. Following the British Libary dating (since authorities differ) MC's own...
Textual Production Anna Jane Vardill
Tabby-Hall, as a community of unattached women, was invented by members of the Attic Chest circle run by Eleanor Anne Porden .
Snell, Susan. “Enlightenment Females and Freemasonry”. Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, Vol.
4
, No. 1-2, 2013.
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It fits somewhere between Sarah Scott 's idealised Millenium Hall and Elizabeth Gaskell
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford , Elizabeth Gaskell , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Camilla Crosland , Anthony Trollope , George Eliot , Julia Kavanagh
Textual Production Mary Howitt
This venture seems to have sprung from William's brief, financially damaging involvement in The People's Journal, 1846-8, whose chaotic business practices were a serious handicap to its programme for rendering workers prudent, sober, independent...
Textual Production May Sinclair
Her introductions to Jane Eyre and Shirley followed in February 1908, that to Elizabeth Gaskell 's The Life of Charlotte Brontë in June 1908, and those for Villette, The Professor, and The Tenant...
Textual Production Annie Keary
AK 's next novel, Oldbury, was compared by some critics to Gaskell 's Cranford, because it is a study of a small provincial community, a backwater out of the mainstream.
The Spectator. F. C. Westley.
42 (1869): 683
Textual Production Olivia Manning
After her return to England she sometimes wrote for the BBC (with which her husband was now a producer), providing scripts for the long-running serial Mrs. Dale's Diary, one number in the series A...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
While Charlotte Brontë , MEC argues, swept the world away in the storm of her passion and George Eliotconquered it with the power of understanding, [Elizabeth] Gaskell forced it to weep for pity [and]...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michèle Roberts
This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text George Eliot
GE discounts the puffery that women authors receive from critics, claiming that praise of women's work is in inverse proportion to their ability: But if they are inclined to resent our plainness of speech, we...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The Blackstick Papers treat a wide range of topics; three of the thirteen concern women writers, and the book's frontispiece is from a miniature of Felicia Hemans .ATR notes the stoicism
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Blackstick Papers. Books for Libraries Press, 1969.
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