A Dark Night’s Work

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The novel emphases on the natural enquiry of personality and feelings, other than exaggeration. The author critiques the class inequity that Edward is imperiled to, and which shambles him and his first positive expectations, while also flashing the dark consequences of his binging and negligence. She also reveals how Ralph’s capriciousness ruins his sincere love and faithfulness to Ellinor. His marriage to a respected woman helps him with his profession but makes him utterly disappointed. The wasting and ensuing desolation for those concerned is expended by Elizabeth to draw the results of deceit and unlikely living, and the bane of morality.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was a novelist and short fiction writer. Her works show a full illustration of the lives of several echelons of Victorian social order, such as the most destitute, and are of attention to social historians and admirers of literature. Her first story is Mary Barton. Her work on The Life of Charlotte Brontë was the first life account of Brontë. A few of Elizabeth’s most popular novels are Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

She was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson in Lindsey Row, Chelsea. She was the youngest of her eight siblings where she and her brother John outlived the early years. Her father, William Stevenson, a Unitarian from Berwick-upon-Tweed, was minister at Failsworth, Lancashire, but left his orders on honest grounds and lived in London in 1806 with the reason of traveling to India after he was designated as private secretary to the Earl of Lauderdale, who was to become Governor General of India. That appointment did not happen, though, and as an alternative, he was nominated Keeper of the Treasury Records. His wife, Elizabeth Holland, emanated from a family from the English Midlands that was related with other well known Unitarian families, such as the Wedgwoods, the Martineaus, the Turners and the Darwins.
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