Elizabeth Gaskell , born the September 29th 1810 with London, dead the November 12th 1865 with Holybourne, in the Hampshire, is a British novelist.
Life
It is born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson to the 93 Cheyne Walk, with Chelsea on September 29th 1810. His/her mother, Eliza Holland, belong to an influential family of the West the Midlands which is related to other unitarian families influential, like Wedgwood and Darwin, but she dies when Elizabeth is child. His/her father, William Stevenson, are a unitarian minister , as well as a writer; it remarie after the death of Eliza.It passes the essence of its childhood in the Cheshire, where it lives with her aunt, Mrs Lumb, with Knutsford, a city which it will immortalisera later in her novel Cranford .
It also remained with Newcastle upon the Tyne and Edinburgh. His/her mother-in-law is a sister of the Scottish painter of miniatures William John Thomson, which paints a famous portrait of Elizabeth in 1832.
The same year, it Marie with William Gaskell, minister with the unitarian vault of Street Cross-country race, Manchester, which carries out its own literary career. They expose to Manchester, where surrounding industry would offer an inspiration for its novels (in the kind of the “industrial novel”).
The circles which they attend comprise of the religious dissidents and the social reformers, in particular William and Mary Howitt.
The first novel of Mrs Gaskell, Mary Barton , appears anonymously in 1848. Most known of its other novels are Northern Cranford (1853), and Southern (1854) and Épouses and girls (1865). It is a friend of Charles Dickens, and she wrote the first biography of Charlotte Brontë, which played a significant part in the rise of the literary reputation of his/her friend.
She dies in the Hampshire on November 22nd 1865, at the 55 years age.
Mrs. Gaskell lines up today among the consiérés British novelists of the era victorienne.
Style
With the assistance of Charles Dickens, which publishes works of Gaskell in its newspaper Household Words , it becomes popular for its writings, especially its stories of phantoms ( ghost story in English). These stories are very different, in the style, of its industrial fiction, and belong to the kind of the Gothic fiction.Although its writing conforms to conventions victoriennes (in particular by signing “Mrs. Gaskell”), Gaskell builds usually its stories like its criticisms of the attitudes of the era victorienne, particularly those which are addressed to the women, with complex accounts and dynamic female characters. The style of Gaskell is famous for the use of words belonging to the local dialect in the mouth of characters of the middle-class and the narrator.
Works
; Novels- Mary Barton (1848)
- Cranford (1851-3)
- Ruth (1853)
- Northern and Southern (1854-5)
- Laws the Witch (1861), French transl.: the Witch of Salem , Corti, 1999
- in love ones with Sylvia (1863)
- Cousin Phillis (1864)
- Wives and girls: A history of the every day (1865)
- The Moorland Cottage (1850)
- The Old Nurse' S Story (1852)
- Lizzie Leigh (1855)
- My Lady Ludlow (1859)
- Round the Sofa (1859)
- has Dark Night' S Work (1863)
- The Squire' S Story (1853)
- Half has Life-time Ago (1855)
- An Accursed Race (1855)
- The Manchester Marriage (1858)
- The Half-brothers (1859)
- The Grey Woman (1861)
- Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)
Simple: Elizabeth Gaskell
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