Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

pubOne.info present you this new edition. There are some fields near Manchester, well known to the inhabitants as "e;Green Heys Fields, "e; through which runs a public footpath to a little village about two miles distant. In spite of these fields being flat, and low, nay, in spite of the want of wood (the great and usual recommendation of...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. My mother was twice married. She never spoke of her first husband, and it is only from other people that I have learnt what little I know about him. I believe she was scarcely seventeen when she was married to him: and he was barely one-and-twenty. He rented a small farm up in Cumberland, somewhere towards...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. December 12th, 1747. - My life has been strangely bound up with extraordinary incidents, some of which occurred before I had any connection with the principal actors in them, or indeed, before I even knew of their existence. I suppose, most old men are, like me, more given to looking back upon their own...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a two days&' journey out of what people now go over in a couple of hours with a whizz and a flash, and a screaming whistle, enough to deafen...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. During this summer of 1846, while her literary hopes were waning, an anxiety of another kind was increasing. Her father's eyesight had become seriously impaired by the progress of the cataract which was forming. He was nearly blind. He could grope his way about, and recognise the figures of those he...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. In the county town of a certain shire there lived (about forty years ago) one Mr. Wilkins, a conveyancing attorney of considerable standing....