Ellen Nussey

She rose to the top of her class by the end of her first six months, and stayed there until her departure, as well as winning prizes in French. There she also met Mary Taylor

She was a pretty and an able student, often at the top of her class. She was also an independent thinker: Miss Wooler suggested that, having finished the year's lessons, MT should memorize...

Taylor and Nussey became lifelong friends and correspondents of CB . She spent short holidays at their homes.

Ironically, this last piece, with a much-reprinted and similarly exaggerated and gossipy account in the Literary Gazette, prompted Ellen Nussey to suggest that Gaskell should write a true account of the life in order...

MT met Charlotte Brontë and Ellen Nussey at Miss Wooler's school; they became lifelong friends.

In a letter to Ellen Nussey , Charlotte described her sister's arduous duties there: Hard labour from six in the morning until near eleven at night. with only one half hour of exercise between—this is...

Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson published...

CB declined a marriage proposal from the Reverend Henry Nussey , the brother of her friend Ellen .

Originally intending to focus upon her subject's time in New Zealand, Stevens felt the need to contextualize MT 's position as an independent merchant in Wellington within the overall life of this spirited woman, and...

In essence, Miss Miles presents and evaluates four case studies of young middle-class women struggling to earn and enjoy a living. Sarah's Aunt Jane details the obstacles facing working women: There's no decent way fit...

An American edition appeared the same year. Commissioned to write the biography in 1882, AMFR conducted an ambitious research programme, including interviews with living friends of the literary sisters. Ellen Nussey , a friend...

CB gained her first experience of rail travel and a first, inspiring sight of the sea during a holiday at Bridlington, Yorkshire, on the east coast, with her friend Ellen Nussey .

CB reluctantly set out to accompany Anne, whose health was failing rapidly, to Scarborough, together with Ellen Nussey .

CB went from London to her friend Ellen Nussey 's in Yorkshire; from there she went on to Edinburgh to join her friends George Smith and his sister Eliza for a couple of days.