Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-09-29 – 1865-11-12) was a British fiction-writer and biographer who witnessed and recorded the transformation of northern England by the Industrial Revolution. She was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson; her married name is often given in the form Mrs. Gaskell.
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- Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
- Mary Barton, ch. 3 (1848)
- Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
- Mary Barton, ch. 37.
- A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
- North and South, ch. 15 (1854-5)
- That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.
- Sylvia's Lovers, ch. 1 (1863)
- People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
- Wives and Daughters, ch. 50 (1864-5)
[edit] Cranford (1851-3)
- Economy was always "elegant", and money-spending always "vulgar and ostentatious"; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied.
- Ch. 1
- A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
- Ch. 11
- I'll not listen to reason…Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
- Ch. 14
