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Elizabeth Gaskell is best known as a novelist and biographer, but she was also a lively and sensitive letter writer, with a vivacious interest in all that was going on around her. This selection from her letters, with a linking commentary provides a biography of Elizabeth Gaskell largely in her own words.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Early influences
2. Marriage
3. Contrasts of the Forties
4. Home in Manchester
5. Family life
6. Growing pains
7. Travels
8. Charities
9. The lives of authors
10. Ars longa, vita brevis
Index.

Elizabeth Gaskell A Portrait in Letters

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719077890, 978-0719077890
      ISBN10: 0719077893

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Elizabeth Gaskell is best known as a novelist and biographer, but she was also a lively and sensitive letter writer, with a vivacious interest in all that was going on around her. This selection from her letters, with a linking commentary provides a biography of Elizabeth Gaskell largely in her own words.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Early influences
      2. Marriage
      3. Contrasts of the Forties
      4. Home in Manchester
      5. Family life
      6. Growing pains
      7. Travels
      8. Charities
      9. The lives of authors
      10. Ars longa, vita brevis
      Index.

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