Elizabeth Gaskell’s Continental Travels, Part 3 Italy
Romantic Rome, 1857 'I am passing a very delightful morning with you in Rome' In Part 1 of Elizabeth Gaskell's Continental Travels we visited Heidelberg, Brussels and Switzerland and in Part 2 we explored France. Elizabeth’s letters between December 1856 and January
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s Continental Travels, Part 2 France
Paris 1853 After Elizabeth’s first Continental trip to Heidelberg in 1841, she didn’t travel abroad again until 1853, when she visited Paris with William and their eldest daughter, Marianne. They stayed with their Manchester friends the Schwabes, who had a house in
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s Continental Travels, Part 1
Heidelberg, Brussels and Switzerland Almost every year while Elizabeth Gaskell lived at Plymouth Grove, she escaped from Manchester, which she claimed gave her a headache, to travel to Europe – referred to at the time as “The Continent”. These trips abroad invariably
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Reading Like a Victorian
Here is Susan Hill on Charles Dickens: 'He is mighty. His flaws are huge but magnificent - and all of a piece with the whole. A perfect, flawless Dickens would somehow be a shrunken, impoverished one. Yes, he is sentimental, yes, he
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A Complicated Friendship
Both Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens have each provided us with timeless pieces of literature, which are only gaining more and more in popularity as time goes on. Elizabeth and Charles have both become household names, and their works are embedded in
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