William Gaskell

As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...

In Manchester she was tutored by the Rev. William Gaskell , husband of the novelist.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson married the Rev. William Gaskell at St John's Parish Church in Knutsford, Cheshire.

Some time after 1835 the Carlyles met Harriet Martineau . While Martineau took to Thomas, she found Jane coquettish and disliked her tendency to interrupt abstract philosophical conversations with little jokes & wanting notice.

Friends constituted another bright spot in her life. One early mentor was the Rev. William Gaskell , whose death in June 1884 was the occasion of moralising in her journal about loss and change.

EG and her husband William were heavily involved in relief work amongst the working classes of Manchester during the recession of the early 1840's.

Manchester College (now Harris Manchester College ) had a long and distinguished history as a Dissenting institution (including spells at York and London) before it moved to Oxford in 1889 and into new buildings...

EG and her husband collaborated on a poem, Sketches among the Poor, No. 1, which appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in January 1837.

She was to receive threepence per copy sold. This was instead of either of the usual two alternatives: outright sale of copyright or joint-profit arrangements. Payment by royalty was already by then established practice in...

EG herself was abroad, and the crisis was handled by her husband , her friend and lawyer William Shaen , and George Smith . A formal letter of apology was sent to the solicitors of...

EG , along with her husband and their daughter Marianne , visited Paris; there she met Scottish hostess Mary Clarke Mohl , whose salons were at the hub of French political and literary life.

Elizabeth spent the next two winters visiting the prominent dissenting minister William Turner , and other family relatives and connections, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. While staying with Turner's daughter Mary Robberds in Manchester, she met...