Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell , often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian 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 of Brontë. In this biography, she wrote only of the moral, sophisticated things in Brontë’s life; the rest she left out, deciding that certain, more salacious aspects were better kept hidden. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford , North and South , and Wives and Daughters , each having been adapted for television by the BBC. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. September 1810 – 12. November 1865
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Famous Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

“I'll not listen to reason…Reason always means what someone else has got to say.”

Source: Cranford (1851–3), Ch. 14

“It was his general plan to repress emotion by not showing the sympathy he felt.”

Wives and Daughters, ch. 11
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