Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (* September 29 1810 in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, † November 12, 1865 in Holybourne, Hampshire ) was a British writer. Even today, she is in the English language often only "Mrs. Called Gaskell ".
Life
Elizabeth Gaskell was born Stevenson. Her mother Eliza was a niece of the ceramic producers Josiah Wedgwood. Her father William was a clerk in the public service and Unitarian clergyman. As Gaskell's mother died shortly after her birth, she spent much of her childhood with an aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire. The place Knutsford was her later the model for the fictional " Cranford ". Elizabeth Gaskell visited the Avonbank School in Stratford- upon- Avon, and lived for two years in connection with the pastor's family of William Turner, a distant cousin, in Newcastle upon Tyne. Gaskell's stepmother was a sister of the Scottish painter William John Thomson and Thompson portrayed Elizabeth Gaskell 1832. 1832 she married the Unitarian clergyman William Gaskell, the lecturer of English history and literature at Manchester New College was. In their place of residence Manchester Elizabeth Gaskell witnessed the industrial revolution and the misery caused by it - the substance of several of her books. The Gaskell's wrong in Manchester in liberal circles and had social-reformist views.
Work
Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton, a Tale of Manchester Life was published in 1848 anonymously. It is one of the first English novels industry, in the melodramatic form in the suffering of the proletariat is presented against the background of the Chartist uprising. Through this novel Gaskell came in contact with Charles Dickens, published them in his magazine Household Words in the sequence. The novel " Ruth " describes the tragic fate of an unmarried mother. Larger notoriety she gained through the novel Cranford (1853 ) and North and South (1855 ), another industrial novel, but less melodramatic precipitated as her first. Her later novels are made much simpler in style and narrative form, resemble artistic discipline to the work of Jane Austen. Her last novel, Wives and Daughters, which plays in the household of a clergyman was left unfinished due to her death.
Elizabeth Gaskell was a good friend of Charlotte Brontë, who first met in 1850. After the death of Charlotte Brontë, she commissioned their father to write their biography. It was published in 1857 and is one of the most important English biographies of the 19th century. However, Patrick Brontë was dissatisfied with the result. It was threatened with a libel suit because they had reported on the affair of Branwell Brontë with the married Mrs. Robinson Gaskell; Carus Wilson saw his school misrepresented and attacked them publicly. After a year Gaskell published an expurgated edition. But she had already many then omitted from the original version scandalous details, such as Charlotte's affection for her teacher Heger in Brussels.
Works
Novels
- Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester, 1848
- Cranford, 1853 ( ISBN 3-7175-1622-1 German Cranford )
- Ruth, 1853
- North and South, 1855 (German Margarethe; Gaskell, Elizabeth [ Cleghorn ]; A novella from the author of " Mary Burton [ vielm Barton. ] " Leipzig & Dresden: Payne, 1856. )
- The Grey Woman, 1861
- Sylvia 's Lovers, 1863
- Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story, 1865 (German wives and daughters ISBN 3-7175-8233- X)
Stories
- The Moorland Cottage, 1850
- The Old Nurse's Story, 1852
- Lizzie Leigh, 1855
- My Lady Ludlow, 1859
- Round the Sofa, 1859
- Lois the Witch, 1861
- A Dark Night 's Work, 1863
- Cousin Phillis and Other Tales, 1863
- Mr. Harrison Bekenntnissse. Narratives, with an afterword by Alice Reinhard Stocker and translated by Andrea Ott, Manesseplatz Verlag, Munich, 2010. ISBN 978-3-7175-2258-4
More fonts
- The Life of Charlotte Bronte, 1857 (Eng. The Life of Charlotte Brontë ISBN 3-423-20048-0 )