Biographical Introduction Elizabeth Cleghorn (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Bettany, G. T.

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ISBN 10 : 1330323785 ISBN 13 : 9781330323786

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Within a month of her birth, her mother died, and after a weeks delay, the infant was taken down to Knutsford, to be placed under the care of her mothers sister, Mrs. Lumb. There she grew up amid modest surroundings, and became the companion of her aunts crippled daughter. The child must have been one of those quiet acute observers who photograph scenes and characters upon their memory. Knutsford was to become famous as Cranford, and its quaint characters, and their mode of life, live before us as undoubted realities. In her kind aunts unpretentious home, with its oldfashioned garden, the future novelist took in abundant material for her career. She was not, however, entirely disconnected with her father, for she paid several visits to Chelsea -during her girlhood ;but hei fathers second, and not happy, marriage rendered these visits sad rather than refreshing. A bout the age of fifteen, Elizabeth Stevenson was sent to school atS tratford-on-A von, under aM iss Byerley ;here she remained for two years, and gained some knowledge of Latin, French, and I talian. In 1827 she lost her only brother, John Stevenson, at sea ;and his remarkable disappearance from the ship, of which he was first officer, afterwards suggested a passage inC ranford. Her father died in A pril, 1829, and from that time till her marriage Miss Stevenson divided her time between Newcastle-on-T yne (where ehe stayed with Mr. Turner, a well-known Unitarian minister), Edinburgh, London, and Knutsford. Everywhere her beauty was remarked and admired, and atE dinburgh numerous painters and sculptors desired to take her portrait. When she first mether future husband, we are not told. On August 30th, 1832, a month before the completion of her twenty-second year, she married, at Knutsford Church, the Kev. William Gaskell, Unitarian minister in Manchester.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330323785
• ISBN 13: 9781330323786
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 31
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