Similar arguments were put forward five years later (the year before AW
died) by Mary Forster
and others (including, again, Mary Elson
) in A Living Testimony From the Power and Spirit of our Lord...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Gaskell
EG
called this work simply a little country love story,
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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although it climaxes with a fire and a shipwreck. Charlotte Brontë
liked it, and Mary Forster
recorded her brother Matthew Arnold
's enjoyment of...