Book Description
This chronology sets Elizabeth Gaskell in her historical, social and literary contexts. It focuses on her career as a writer but also underlines her interactive roles as wife, mother, practical and tolerant Christian, radical sympathizer. Graham Handley discusses her early life, her marriage, the beginnings of her writing, the years of achievement, her social, humanitarian concerns, love of travel and its influence, with the balance of domesticity and creativity which is the key to her character.
About the Author
Graham Handley is a retired lecturer and has published widely on nineteenth-century fiction.
An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology (Author Chronologies Series) FROM THE PUBLISHER
A chronology is a biography in brief. This chronology examines relevant letters written by Elizabeth Gaskell and others written to her, as well as summarising her domestic and literary concerns, indicating the strains and stresses of her interactive lives, the family joys and sufferings (three of her children died), and insights into her relationship with her husband. It provides publication dates for her works, including the lesser known ones, and summarises some contemporary opinions of them. Gaskell's friendships and many interests are also stressed, set against immediate and wider historical contexts. The book provides the reader with snapshots of the day-to-day life of one of the nineteenth century's most enduring women writers, and will appeal to any Gaskell scholar, student or general enthusiast.
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