I spent the past week with the ladies of Cranford. It was a delightful time listening to stories of their girlhood friendships and family life and the bittersweet present where many of their dreams were not realized. Still, I was captivated at this group of women trying to maintain their dignity through the aging process …
Tag: Elizabeth Gaskell
Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell (1853)
The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes–when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward …
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