Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras

By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell was a British author during the Victorian era, and her novels are notable for detailed descriptions of the different classes of society in 19th century Britain.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Krill Press
• Release date: Dec 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781518334573

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English author who wrote biographies, short stories, and novels. Because her work often depicted the lives of Victorian society, including the individual effects of the Industrial Revolution, Gaskell has impacted the fields of both literature and history. While Gaskell is now a revered author, she was criticized and overlooked during her lifetime, dismissed by other authors and critics because of her gender. However, after her death, Gaskell earned a respected legacy and is credited to have paved the way for feminist movements.

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LIBBIE MARSH’S THREE ERAS

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Elizabeth Gaskell

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras

Era I: Valentine’s Day

Era II: Whitsuntide

Era III: Michaelmas

Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras

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First published 1850

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INTRODUCTION

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ELIZABETH GASKELL (1810-1865) WAS A well known British novelist at one of the peak eras for female writers in England. A novelist and short story writer at the height of the Victorian Era, Gaskell’s novels weave a comprehensive, detailed image of the lives of all kinds of different classes in society during that age, ranging from the very poor to the cream of the aristocratic crop. Of course, given the era in which she wrote, Mrs. Gaskell’s writing included a wonderful style of prose that still continues to please literary critics, even while discussing the general themes of the day like religion and poverty.

While novels like North and South dazzled readers, her short stories, particularly Gothic ghost stories, caught the eye of no less a writer than Charles Dickens, who helped get her stories published during the middle of the 19th century.

LIBBIE MARSH’S THREE ERAS

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ERA I: VALENTINE’S DAY

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LAST NOVEMBER BUT ONE, THERE was a flitting in our neighbourhood; hardly a flitting, after all, for it was only a single person changing her place of abode from one lodging to another; and instead of a cartload of drawers and baskets, dressers and beds, with old king clock at the top of all, it was only one large wooden chest to be carried after the girl, who moved slowly and heavily along the streets, listless and depressed, more from the state of her mind than of her body. It was Libbie Marsh, who had been obliged to quit her room in Dean Street, because the acquaintances whom she had been living with were leaving Manchester. She tried to think herself fortunate