ELIZABETH GASKELL
Elizabeth Gaskell (full name
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell) was born on September 29,
Biography and Career :
Her mother's name was
Eliza Holland and she passed away when Elizabeth was a child. Her father,
William Stevenson, was a Unitarian minister, a writer and remarried after his
wife's death.
Elizabeth spent most of
her childhood in Knutsford with an aunt, Mrs. Lumb, but also spent some time in
Newcastle upon Tyne and Edinburgh.
In 1832 she married
William Gaskell, the minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel in Manchester,
who also had a literary career. They decided to live in Manchester.
Elizabeth Gaskell was
known as Mrs. Gaskell. She met Charlotte Bronte in 1850 and had a great
friendship. After Charlotte's death her friend wrote his biography.
She was conscientious,
sociable and had a special sense of worse and good. Even if she was an orphan
and suffered many losses she thought in a positive way, had energy and was a
good wife and mother.
"Mary Barton"
was her first novel published in 1848 and in "North and South"
(published in 1855) she described her life. The pain that comes-out from her
novels is touching. They say Gaskell wrote the novels advised by her husband
because he was worried for her. Their son passed away when he was only ten
months. He wasn't the only child, the family also had four daughters.
"Ruth" written
in 1853 had a theme considered scandalous at that time: the awake of human
conscience in front of prostitute.
All of her works were
written in a professional way and for money, that's why the author said:
"I don't think I cared about literary fame, I don't even think it's
something you should ever care about. It comes and the disappears…".
Elizabeth Gaskell died
on the 22nd of November
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