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Excerpt from Biographical Introduction Elizabeth Cleghorn
Mrs. Gaskell now found herself In a home where she had ease of circumstances and of mind. She devoted herself to bringing up her children, and especially to the education of her daughters. She frequently took part in her husband's varied engage ments, particularly in works of charity. In these years she was gradually gathering her rich store of information about Manchester life and character. She seems either to have had no original impulse to write, or else to have sti?ed or concealed it. The first literary effort of hers that is known to have been published, is contained in William Howitt's Visits to Remarkable Places Mrs. Howitt, in her autobiography, writes thus My husband (william Howitt), on the announcement of his intended Visits to Remarkable Places, ' received, in 1838, a letter from Manchester, signed E. C. Gaskell, drawing his attention to a fine old seat, Clopton Hall, near stratford-ou-avon. It described in so powerful and graphic a manner the writer's visit as a schoolgirl to the mansion and its inmates, that in replying he urged his correspondent to use her pen for the public benefit.
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