![]() ![]() True, it also reminded the viewer of a less advertised dimension of nineteenth-century society, in which women had a role and power, and older women at that. But Cranford is only one side of Gaskell, and the television version accentuated those qualities which place her writing as domestic, bourgeois, and unconcerned with the wider world. The BBC adaptation of Cranford in 2007, with luminaries such as Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins bringing Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Amazons’ into people’s front rooms, no doubt did wonders for the sale of the novel and made Gaskell known to a wider public. ![]() Thereafter, she produced five more complete novels and many short stories her seventh and final novel Wives and Daughters was left short of its ending when she died suddenly in 1865 at the age of 55. It was not until 1848, after the birth (and some deaths) of her children, immersion in the intellectual and cultural life of Manchester, and engagement with its profound social ills, that she published her first novel, Mary Barton. The greater part of her adult life (she married the Unitarian minister William Gaskell in 1832) was spent in one of the great industrial and economic centres of that period, Manchester. Elizabeth Gaskell Below the benign surface of Elizabeth Gaskell, the author of Cranford, Sally Minogue recognises a radical spirit.Įlizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was born in 1810 and died in 1865 her life thus spanned a period of great social and cultural ferment in nineteenth-century England. ![]()
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