Keywords: Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"For the first time in her life, Molly Gibson was to be included among the guests at the Towers. She was much too young to be a visitor at the school, so it was not on that account that she was to go; but it had so happened that one day when Lord Cumnor was on a 'pottering' expedition, he had met Mr. Gibson, ~the~ doctor of the neighbourhood, coming out of the farm-house my lord was entering; and having some small question to ask the surgeon (Lord Cumnor seldom passed any one of his acquaintance without asking a question of some sort--not always attending to the answer; it was his mode of conversation), he accompanied Mr. Gibson to the out-building, to a ring in the wall of which the surgeon's horse was fastened. Molly was there too, sitting square and quiet on her rough little pony, waiting for her father. Her grave eyes opened large and wide at the close neighbourhood and evident advance of 'the earl'; for to her little imagination the grey-haired, red-faced, somewhat clumsy man, was a cross between an archangel and a king."
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865), was a British novelist. She wrote social fiction dealing with the condition of the working class and also explorations of village life. "Wives and Daughters" and "Cranford" are two of her most famous. She was friends with Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte. Gaskell's classic and controversial biography "The Life of Charlotte Bronte," caused a great stir when it first came out.
Gaskell did not believe an author was obligated to provide biographical materials for future researchers. After her death none of her private letters or writings were released.
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