CHRONOLOGY

1810

29 September. Elisabeth Clerghorn Stevenson born to William Stevenson and Elisabeth Holland, in Lindsey Row, Chelsea (now Cheyne Walk);

she has one brother, John (b. 1798).

1811

29 October. Her mother, Elisabeth Stevenson, dies in Chelsea. Soon afterwards the baby Elisabeth is taken to Knutsford, Chesire

to be cared for by her mother elder sister, Hannah Lumb.

1814

William Stevenson marries Catherine Thomson.

1821

Elisabeth goes to a boarding-school near Warwick run by the Byerley sisters, relations of her stepmother and of the Wedgwood family.

1822

Her brother John Stevenson joints the Merchant Navy.

1824

The school moves to Stratford-upon-Avon.

1826

Elisabeth leaves school.

1828

John Stevenson disappears either while on his way to India or after his arrival there. Nothing is ever know of his fate.

1829

22 March. Death of William Stevenson.

Elisabeth is thought to have spent the winter, and that of 1830-1, with relations, the Turners, in Newcastle upon Tyne and

to have visited Edinburgh with Ann Turner, probably in 1830 or 1831.

1831

Meets the Revd William Gaskell (1805-84)

1932

30 August. Marries William Gaskell at St John’s Parish Church, Knutsford. They live at 1 Dover Street, Manchester,

where he is assistant minister at Cross Street Chapel.

1833

10 July. Birth of a stillborn girl.

1834

12 September. Birth of Marianne Gaskell.

1837

January. Publication of the Gaskell’s poem ‘Sketches among the Poor’ in Blackwood magazine.

7 February. Birth of Margaret Emily (Meta) Gaskell.

1 May. Death of Hannah Lumb.

1840

William Howitt, Visits to Remarkable Places includes her description of Clopton Hall. Birth and death of a son, name and date unknown,

between 1837 and 1841.

1841

July. William and Elisabeth Gaskell visit Heidelberg.

1842

7 October. Birth of Florence Elisabeth Gaskell.

Move to 121 Upper Rumford Road, Manchester.

1844

23 October. Birth of William Gaskell.

1845

10 August. Death of the baby William Gaskell on holiday in Wales.

1846

3 September. Birth of Julia Bradford Gaskell.

1847

June. ‘Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras’ published in Howitt’s Journal.

September. ‘The Sexton’s Hero’, Howitt’s Journal.

1848

April-May. Visits London and meets Dickens and Carlyle.

June-August. Visits the Lake District and meets Wordsworth.

July. ‘The Last Generation in England’, Sartain’s Union Magazine, ‘Hand and Heart’, Sunday School Penny Magazine.

1850

January. Dickens writes to ask her for contributions to the forth-coming Household Words.

February. ‘Martha Preston’, Sartain’s Union Magazine.

March-April. ‘Lizzie Leigh’, Household Words.

June. Moves to 42 Plymouth Grove, Manchester.

August. Meets Charlotte Brontë while staying with the Kay-Shuttleworth family.

November. ‘The Well of Pen-Morfa’, Household Words.

December. The Moorland Cottage; ‘The Heart of John Middleton’, Household Words.

1851

February-April. ‘Mr Harrison’s Confessions’, Ladies Companion and Monthly Magazine.

June. ‘Disappearances’, Household Words.

July. Visit to London and the Great Exhibition .

October. Visits Knutsford.

December-May 1853. The Cranford papers in Household Words.

1852

January-April. ‘Bessy’s Troubles at Home’, Sunday School Penny Magazine.

June. ‘The Shah’s English Gardener’, Household Words.

December. ‘The Old Nurse’s Story’, Household Words.

1853

January. Ruth. Reviews and letters about Ruth make Gaskell feel like ‘St Sebastian tied to a tree to be sht at with arrows’.

‘Cumberland Sheep Shearers’, Household Words.

May. Visits Paris.

June. Cranford.

August. Visits Normandy.

September. Visits Charlotte Brontë at Haworth.

October. ‘Bran’, Household Words.

December. ‘Traits and Stories of the Hugunots’, ‘My French Master’, ‘The Squire’s Story’, ‘The Scholar’s Story’, all in Household Words.

1854

January. Visits Paris.

February. ‘Modern Greek Songs’, Household Words.

May. ‘Company Manners’, Household Words.

September-January 1855, North and South, Household Words.

1855

February. Visits Paris.

31 March. Charlotte Brontë dies.

June. Charlotte Brontë’s father ask her to write his daughter’s biography.

August. ‘An Accursed Race’, Household Words.

September. Lizzie Leigh and Other Tales.

October. ‘Half a Life Time Ago’, Household Words.

1856

May. Visits Brussels to research Charlotte Brontë’s schooldays.

December. ‘The Poor Clare’, Household Words.

1857

February-May. Visits Rome.

March. The Life of Charlotte Brontë.

May. Libel action threatened by Lady Scott; Gaskell retracts accusation of adultery with Branwell Brontë in The Life of CB.

June. Meta enganged to Captain Charles Hill, widowed officer in the Indian Army. News of the Indian Mutiny causes anxiety to the Gaskells,

and Hill is recalled to India.

1858

January. ‘The Doom of the Griffiths’, Harper’s Monthly Magazine.

June. ‘An Incident at Niagara Falls’, Harper’s Monthly Magazine.

June-September. ‘My Lady Ludlow’, Household Words.

Summer. Meta’s engagement to Charles Hill is broken off.

September-December. Visit to Heidelberg.

November. ‘The Sin of a Father’ (collected as ‘Right at Last’), Household Words.

December. ‘The Manchester Marriage’, Household Words.

1859

March. Round the Sofa.

Summer. Visits Scotland.

October. ‘Lois the Wicth’, All the Year Round.

November. Visits Whitly, later to be scene of Sylvia’s Lovers.

December. ‘The Ghost in the Garden Room’ (collected as ‘The Crooked Branch’), All the Year Round.

1860

February. ‘Curious if True’, Cornhill Magazine.

May. Right at Last and Other Tales.

July-August. Visits Heidelberg.

Right at Last and Other Tales.

1861

January. ‘The Grey Woman’, All the Year Round.

The American Civil War blockade causes famine among the Lancashire cotton workers.

1862

‘Six Weeks at Heppenheim’, Cornhill Magazine.

April. Worries that her daughter Marianne may be going to convert to Roman Catholicism.

May. Visits Normandy to gather material for articles on French life.

Famine in Lancashire worsens in the winter.

1863

January-March. ‘A Dark Night’s Work’, All the Year Round.

February. Sylvia’s Lovers; ‘Shams’, Fraser’s Magazine.

March. ‘An Italian Institution’, All the Year Round.

March-August. Visits France and Italy.

April. A Dark Night’s Work.

8 September. Florence Gaskell marries Charles Crompton.

November. ‘The Cage at Cranford’, All the Year Round.

November-February 1864. ‘Cousin Phillis’, Cornhill Magazine.

December. ‘How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle’. All the Year Round.

1864

April-June. ‘French Life’, Fraser’s Magazine.

August-January 1866. Wives and Daughters, Cornhill Magazine.

August. Visits Paris.

1865

March-April. Visits Paris.

March. ‘Columns of Gossip from Paris’, Pall Mall Gazette.

June. Buys The Lawns, Holybourne, Hampshire, without telling her husband.

August-September. ‘A Parson’s Holiday’, Pall Mall Gazette.

October. Visits Dieppe. The Grey Woman and Other Tales.

12 November. Dies at Holybourne.

Cousin Philis and Other Tales.

The Grey Woman and Other Tales.

1866

February. Wives and Daughters: An Every-day Story, published posthumously and unfinished.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Gaskell, Elisabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.

Mary Barton.

(Oxford World’s classics)

I.Title.

PR4710.M3 1987 823’.8 86-17944

ISBN 0-19-283510-6 (pbk.)

Printed in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham,kent.

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