EG
was early encouraged in private writing. As a child she wrote exuberant letters full of stories to her family and friends, informal travel writings, and when she was in her teens her brother
and...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Gaskell
Sailor John Stevenson
, the only surviving sibling of the future EG
, disappeared, either at sea or somewhere in India.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth had only one surviving full sibling, John
, the eldest of the family. Of the eight children her mother bore, only the oldest and youngest survived, and John, a sailor, disappeared around the time...