Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was the first biography about Brontë. Some of Gaskell's best...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 September 1810
Bombazine would have shown a deeper sense of her loss.
A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
We were none of us musical, though Miss Jenkyns beat time, out of time, by way of appearing to be so.
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.
On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.