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Elizabeth Gaskell lived during a time of great upheavals resulting from the industrial revolution and was very much aware of the difficult conditions of daily life that it caused and the health problems suffered by the workers of Manchester North and South has been interpreted by Roberto Dainotto as “ a kind of apocalyptic journey into the inferno of the changing times — modern poverty, rage, desperation, militant trade unionism and class antagonism ” where the strike described bears resemblance to the Preston strike which occurred the year before the novel was published.
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In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.
Charlotte's friendship with fellow writer Elizabeth Gaskell, whilst not necessarily close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote Charlotte's biography after her death in 1855.
However Elizabeth Gaskell, who believed that marriage provided ' clear and defined duties ' that were beneficial for a woman, encouraged Charlotte to consider the positive aspects of such a union, and even tried to use her contacts to engineer an improvement in Nicholls ' financial situation.
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The University was located on seven sites of which five were in Manchester ( All Saints, Aytoun, Didsbury, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Hollings ) and two were in Cheshire ( Alsager and Crewe ) and has begun to ' rationalise ' its estate with a view to reducing the number of sites to two.
Health-related and psychology programmes are based at the Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Hathersage Road, Rusholme, whilst social work and social change programmes are located at Didsbury.
The name of " Elizabeth Gaskell " commemorates the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell who lived in Plymouth Grove nearby.
Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.
* Stanton, Elizabeth Cady ; edited by Ann D. Gordon ; assistant editor Tamara Gaskell Miller.
Elizabeth Gaskell was also a successful writer and first novel, Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848.
* North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Chapter XLIX
His plight won him the sympathy of kindred spirits, such as George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and later Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
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The family had strong literary ties: novelist Elizabeth Gaskell enjoyed her visits to the Procter household, and Procter's father was friends with poet Leigh Hunt, essayist Charles Lamb, and novelist Charles Dickens, as well as being acquainted with poet William Wordsworth and critic William Hazlitt.
* A House to Let, a short story co-written with Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins
* The Haunted House, a short story co-written with Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, George Sala and Hesba Stretton
" North and South, East and West: Elizabeth Gaskell, the Crimean War, and the Condition of England.
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* 2007 – Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
Mary's closest confidant, Charles V's ambassador Simon Renard, argued that her throne would never be safe while Elizabeth lived ; and the Chancellor, Stephen Gardiner, worked to have Elizabeth put on trial.
At first, only Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".
Born to Alexander Beaton Ferguson, a plater's helper in the shipbuilding industry, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Hardie, Alex Ferguson was born at his grandmother's home on Shieldhall Road, Govan, on 31 December 1941, but grew up in a tenement at 667 Govan Road ( which has since been demolished ) where he lived with his parents as well as his younger brother Martin.
His mother Elizabeth George ( 1828 – 96 ) sold the farm and moved with her children to her native Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, where she lived in Tŷ Newydd with her brother Richard Lloyd ( 1834 – 1917 ), a shoemaker, Baptist minister and strong Liberal.
Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".
At the Abbey, Elizabeth was treated with all the respect due to a queen dowager, lived a regal life, and received a pension of £ 400 and small gifts from the King.
His eldest daughter Queen Mary lived there between 1533 and 1536, when she was sent to wait on the then Princess Elizabeth, as punishment for refusing to recognise Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn and his religious reforms.
He lived there with his wife Lady Elizabeth Howard and their children George, Mary and Anne ( the future wife of Henry VIII ).
Among people associated with Deptford are Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered at Deptford Strand ; diarist John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ) who lived at Sayes Court, and had Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) as a guest for about three months in 1698 ; and Sir Francis Drake who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford Docks.
After her execution, the manor returned to the King who held it until his death in 1547, when it passed to his final wife Katherine Parr, who lived in the house with her stepdaughter Princess Elizabeth.
* Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere ( 1540-1617 ) and wife Alice Spencer ( 1559-1637 ) lived in Harefield from 1601 ; Queen Elizabeth I visited the couple in July 1602
One of Henry VIII's closest friends, Henry Norris, lived at Kew Farm, which was later owned by Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
Nearby historically was the palace of Edward VI, where Elizabeth I lived while a princess, including during the final illness of Henry VIII.
Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne ( who lived with the couple in a polyamorous relationship ), served as exemplars for the character and greatly influenced her creation.
Elizabeth Denham was employed as a nurse to the wealthy Colepeper family, who lived locally, which means that it is likely that Aphra grew up with and spent time with the family's children.
King lived in the old Hugh Deane-John Paul mansion ( later known as the Kingsville Inn and presently as the Lassahn Funeral home on Belair Road ) with his wife Elizabeth Taylor, a sister of the Hon.
The Duchess introduced the Duke to her best friend, the Lady Elizabeth Foster ( who later married the Duke ), and lived in a triad with them for the next 25 years.
The town was named for Elizabeth Quinton who lived to be 116 years old.
They were John, Amariah and Hannah ( wife of George L. Byon ) Hammond ; Esther Wright ( second wife of Ira Bulkley ); Elizabeth Cook ( wife of Orsemus Rathbone ); Willis and Nancy ( wife of Brockhurst L. Baker ) Hammond ; George L. and Harris T. Ryon ; Benson, Elizabeth and Charles Tubbs ; Maria Coates ( wife of Lorenzo Cook ); Edward, Charlotte and Hester Buck ; Phebe Mascho, who died young, and her brother Charles ; and a girl named Rifle, who lived in the family of John Ryon, Sr. Miss Wright ’ s pay for teaching was " calculated at one dollar per week, or one bushel of good merchantable wheat.
At this time, all the homes in Briarcliffe — except for the van Burens, who lived across the road from the central lake, and Elizabeth Patterson, whose home was on what is now South Gate Road — were clustered along what is now North Gate Road.
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