According to Robert Louis Stevenson, HCJ
left her husband when she was about forty for a short-lived affair, in Paris, with Agostino Ruffini
, an Italian nationalist patriot whom she had first met as a...
Literary responses
Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
Agostino Ruffini
was said to think very highly of this novel before its publication.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press.
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Again Geraldine Jewsbury
wrote the Athenæum review, and this time her praise was warm. She felt that the climactic scene...