manchester tourist guide history
Tuesday, 29th July 2003
Elizabeth GaskellThe greatest C19 novelist working in Manchester documented the changes taking place in the city. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) lived for many years on Plymouth Grove and her novels such as Mary Barton, North and South and Ruth looked at the new industrial age from both a working and middle- class viewpoint, although many of the latter thought her picture of them was unjust.
Mrs Gaskell was married to the Rev. William Gaskell of Cross Street Unitarian Chapel, a progressive himself. She took up writing on her husband’s suggestion to take her mind off the grief of losing an infant son. She is also famous for her novels Cranford and Wives and Daughters, set in the south Manchester town of Knutsford.
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