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Unknown recipient 1856: âI would not trust a mouse to a woman if a manâs judgment was to be had. Women have no judgement. They have tact, and sensitiveness and geniusâŠâ #gaskell
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8 months ago
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Parthenope Nightingale 1854: ââŠin some odd leisure ÂŒ of an hour would you mind writing a little about what I am so greedy to know. I pick up all the scraps I can out of newspapers; but they only whet my hungerâ #gaskel
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8 months ago
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To Maria James 1851: âMr. Gaskell and I want to congratulate Mr. James on his appointment as master in Chancery; though what that mysterious office may beâŠI know as much of as I know of the Grand Llamaâ #gaske
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8 months ago
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To John Forster 1852: âWe dined quietly with Mrs. Wordsworth this morning. She is charmingâ #gas
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8 months ago
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To R. Monckton Milnes Oct 29 1853: "With skilful diplomacy, for which I admire myself extremely, I have obtained the address we want"
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8 months ago
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To Harriet Martineau on Adam Bede and Janetâs Repentences 1859: âI have stuck out that a man wrote them.. I had rather they had not been written by Miss EvansâŠbut justice must be done to all; and after all the writing... should raise her in everyoneâs opinionâ #gaskellev
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8 months ago
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To Mary Carpenter, re: a publication by H. Martineau, thought to affirm Atheism and Materialism: âI donât quite understand the domestic politics of these vallies; but Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Davy have thought it right to decline intercourse with Miss Martineauâ #gaske
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8 months ago
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To George Smith 1855: âThe Professorâ Mr. Nicholls would not allow me to see, saying that whole pages of it had been embodied in âVilletteâ #gaskell
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8 months ago
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To Marianne 1851: âI hear that a new housemaid whom I have engaged is coming (from Stamford in Lincolnshire) the day after tomorrow, and I must write untold of directions home about things, as the servants donât expect herâ #gaske
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8 months ago
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To L Hachette 1855: I had a message... that translations of my works had already appeared in the âBibliothĂ©que du Chemin du ferâ[sic]. If there should be any money owingâŠthe friend who will convey to you the numbers of Household Words is authorized to receive it #gaskel
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8 months ago
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Meta to Charles E. Norton about Marianneâs flirtation with Catholicism: âOur fears about her have almost pastâŠ.she re-entered her home life, the excitement died a natural death; and now I really believe that her thoughts hardly ever revert to Roman Catholicismâ #gaskell
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9 months ago
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To Marianne form 106 Haupt Strasse 1858: âIt seems always to be me to write; butâŠthe others, Meta especially do work pretty hard at their German; and that we have more people popping in and out than we expected #gas
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9 months ago
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To Ellen Nussey 1855: âit is my busiest time of the year, and our house has been and is, almost fuller than it will hold of company, for whose amusement and entertainment I have to plan each dayâ #gas
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9 months ago
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To Parthenope Nightingale, 1854: âYou canât think how generous I feel myself in giving you a whole sheet of paper, when I have only two leftâ #gaske
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9 months ago
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To Mary Green 1855: âI thought I had a piece of quiet before me; but then came a letter from Mrs. Chapman the Anti-Slavery Mrs. C. volunteering a visit that afternoon to stay till todayâ #gas
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9 months ago
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To Marianne 1859: âI shall never be wise enough in a tĂȘte a tĂȘte with a girl who does not read poetry and novels but Adam Smith and Niall etc. & âand has no sense of humour but takes everything literallyâ #gaskell
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9 months ago
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To Verlag B. Tauchnitz 1862: â I cannot help wishing that sometime or other you would collect Cranford out of Household Words, and publish it in your seriesâ #gas
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9 months ago
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To Anne Holland from Lea Hurst, the Nightingalesâ house near Matlock: âI did not know Derbyshire before. It is beautiful as distinct from wild or grandâ #gaske
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9 months ago
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"Marriage would be very nice... I shouldnât mind being a bride, if I could be one without having a husband." Bathsheba, Far From the Madding Crowd. Discuss. Join our study sessions - we start October 28
https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/thomas-hardy-and-elizabeth-gaskell/
9 months ago
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From Marianne to Charles Eliot Norton 1859: âI hope Mama and Meta will go to Whitby next week for a fortnight or so-Mama is much better than she has been for a long time but I want her not to be in Manchester in Novemberâ #gas
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9 months ago
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To Marianne from Lea Hurst 1854: âI have done little but write all day & and it is now near 5, and I must go out. I have very little news to tell anyoneâ #gas
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9 months ago
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To Samuel Holland ? 1857: âtell us when there is a chance of you & Annie coming to see us. Would any time in November do? We shall have some good concerts in that monthâ #gas
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9 months ago
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To Charles Bosanquet 1863:âmost our days being spent from 9AM to7-30PM in the Sewing âSchools. We were all so knocked up by this extra dutyâ #gaske
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9 months ago
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At Sea-Scale, Whitehaven 1857: ââŠit is a blusterous placeâŠ(We have had to wear a pair of drawers for a dressing gown , owing to Hearnâs queer packing upâ #gaskellev
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9 months ago
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To Marianne from Catherine Winkworthâs in Southport 1848: âI often wish for you here to run up and down these steep stairs for me; they are very tiringâ #gaske
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9 months ago
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To Lady Kay-Shuttleworth about introduction of nurseries 1850: If I did not know how averse working people are to anything new, I should be disheartened by the vast number of objections they raiseâ #g
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9 months ago
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To William Turner, 1832: âI have been so completely in a âwhirlâ that I feel I can hardly arrange my thoughtsâŠMr. Gaskell has promised as soon as the formal bridal calls have been made, to go with me and introduce me to most of the families under his careâ #gaskellev
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9 months ago
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Donât forget the torn piece of envelope. No run-of-the-mill scrap of paper and a personal favourite of ours.
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about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Dr Emma Probett
over 1 year ago
Just delivered! Really looking forward to reviewing it for
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We also offer, âI won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it was not me.â From Gaskellâs Wives and Daughters.
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over 1 year ago
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You can never - never - have too many bonnets. Weâd go for John Thornton over Darcy thoughâŠ.
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over 1 year ago
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Gaskell never took the easy route. She got herself into trouble more than once through campaigning for social justice and telling inconvenient truths. A brilliant woman, ahead of her time.
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over 1 year ago
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