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Elizabeth Gaskell

2011-01-01T13:54:30Z

Lena:

1810-1865. Journalist and novellist.

[[File:Elizabeth_Gaskell.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Elizabeth Gaskell]]

==Life==

Elizabeth Gaskell was the second surviving child of the marriage between William Stevenson and Elizabeth Holland. The daughter was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on the 29th of September 1810 in Chelsea, London.

Elizabeth’s father was a Unitarian minister in Manchester. After her mother died one year after Elizabeth’s birth, she had to move to Knutsford in Cheshire and live with her aunt Hannah Holland, who was also known as “Aunt Lumb”, to whom she had a very good relationship.

From then on she only lived with her father from time to time. He married his second wife in 1814, which was a “very, very unhappy” time for Elizabeth.

In 1821, she began to study at Miss Byerlys’ school at Barford House. But later on she was sent to Avonbank School in Stratford upon Avon. She left this school in 1826 and went to London.
On the 20th of March 1829 her father suffered a stroke and died two days later.

In 1831 in Edinburgh she met her future husband William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father had been. They married in 1832 and moved to Manchester, where she gave birth to her five children Marianne, Meta, Florence Elizabeth, Julia and her son William, who died of scarlet fever shortly after his birth.

His death was an inspiration for Elizabeth to write her first novel Mary Barton, which was published anonymously in 1848. It was a great success and was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens. The latter offered her to make contributions to his magazine “Household Words”.

Being a good friend of Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth was asked by Charlotte’s father to write her biography. This biography ''Life of Charlotte Brontë'' was published in 1857.

Elizabeth Gaskell died in Hampshire on the 12th of November 1865 leaving the novel ''Wives and Daughters'' incomplete.

==Works==

''Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life'' (1848)

''Ruth'' (1853)

''Cranford'' (1853)

''North and South'' (1855)

''Lizzie Leigh and other Tales'' (1855)

''Life of Charlotte Brontë'' (1856)

''My Lady Ludow'' (1858)

''Adam Bede'' (1859)

''Round the Sofa and other Tales'' (1859)

''Lois the Witch and other Tales'' (1861)

''The Grey Woman'' (1861)

''A Dark Night’s Work'' (1863)

''Cousin Phillis'' (1864)

''Wives and Daughters'' (1864)

==Sources==

Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell. London: Routledge & Paul, 1979.

Matus, Jill L. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaskell_elizabeth.shtml

http://www.read-all-over.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elizabeth-gaskell2.jpg

Elizabeth Gaskell

2011-01-01T13:54:17Z

Lena:

Elizabeth Gaskell

2011-01-01T13:50:42Z

Lena:

[[File:Elizabeth_Gaskell.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Elizabeth Gaskell]]

==Life==

Elizabeth Gaskell was the second surviving child of the marriage between William Stevenson and Elizabeth Holland. The daughter was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on the 29th of September 1810 in Chelsea, London.

Elizabeth’s father was a Unitarian minister in Manchester. After her mother died one year after Elizabeth’s birth, she had to move to Knutsford in Cheshire and live with her aunt Hannah Holland, who was also known as “Aunt Lumb”, to whom she had a very good relationship.

From then on she only lived with her father from time to time. He married his second wife in 1814, which was a “very, very unhappy” time for Elizabeth.

In 1821, she began to study at Miss Byerlys’ school at Barford House. But later on she was sent to Avonbank School in Stratford upon Avon. She left this school in 1826 and went to London.
On the 20th of March 1829 her father suffered a stroke and died two days later.

In 1831 in Edinburgh she met her future husband William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father had been. They married in 1832 and moved to Manchester, where she gave birth to her five children Marianne, Meta, Florence Elizabeth, Julia and her son William, who died of scarlet fever shortly after his birth.

His death was an inspiration for Elizabeth to write her first novel Mary Barton, which was published anonymously in 1848. It was a great success and was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens. The latter offered her to make contributions to his magazine “Household Words”.

Being a good friend of Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth was asked by Charlotte’s father to write her biography. This biography ''Life of Charlotte Brontë'' was published in 1857.

Elizabeth Gaskell died in Hampshire on the 12th of November 1865 leaving the novel ''Wives and Daughters'' incomplete.

==Works==

''Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life'' (1848)

''Ruth'' (1853)

''Cranford'' (1853)

''North and South'' (1855)

''Lizzie Leigh and other Tales'' (1855)

''Life of Charlotte Brontë'' (1856)

''My Lady Ludow'' (1858)

''Adam Bede'' (1859)

''Round the Sofa and other Tales'' (1859)

''Lois the Witch and other Tales'' (1861)

''The Grey Woman'' (1861)

''A Dark Night’s Work'' (1863)

''Cousin Phillis'' (1864)

''Wives and Daughters'' (1864)

==Sources==

Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell. London: Routledge & Paul, 1979.

Matus, Jill L. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaskell_elizabeth.shtml

http://www.read-all-over.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elizabeth-gaskell2.jpg

Elizabeth Gaskell

2011-01-01T13:49:38Z

Lena:

[[File:Elizabeth_Gaskell.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Elizabeth Gaskell]]

==Life==

Elizabeth Gaskell was the second surviving child of the marriage between William Stevenson and Elizabeth Holland. The daughter was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on the 29th of September 1810 in Chelsea, London.

Elizabeth’s father was a Unitarian minister in Manchester. After her mother died one year after Elizabeth’s birth, she had to move to Knutsford in Cheshire and live with her aunt Hannah Holland, who was also known as “Aunt Lumb”, to whom she had a very good relationship.

From then on she only lived with her father from time to time. He married his second wife in 1814, which was a “very, very unhappy” time for Elizabeth.

In 1821, she began to study at Miss Byerlys’ school at Barford House. But later on she was sent to Avonbank School in Stratford upon Avon. She left this school in 1826 and went to London.
On the 20th of March 1829 her father suffered a stroke and died two days later.

In 1831 in Edinburgh she met her future husband William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father had been. They married in 1832 and moved to Manchester, where she gave birth to her five children Marianne, Meta, Florence Elizabeth, Julia and her son William, who died of scarlet fever shortly after his birth.

His death was an inspiration for Elizabeth to write her first novel Mary Barton, which was published anonymously in 1848. It was a great success and was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens. The latter offered her to make contributions to his magazine “Household Words”.

Being a good friend of Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth was asked by Charlotte’s father to write her biography. This biography ''Life of Charlotte Brontë'' was published in 1857.

Elizabeth Gaskell died in Hampshire on the 12th of November 1865 leaving the novel ''Wives and Daughters'' incomplete.

==Works==

''Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life'' (1848)

''Ruth'' (1853)

''Cranford'' (1853)

''North and South'' (1855)

''Lizzie Leigh and other Tales'' (1855)

''Life of Charlotte Brontë'' (1856)

''My Lady Ludow'' (1858)

''Adam Bede'' (1859)

''Round the Sofa and other Tales'' (1859)

''Lois the Witch and other Tales'' (1861)

''The Grey Woman'' (1861)

''A Dark Night’s Work'' (1863)

''Cousin Phillis'' (1864)

''Wives and Daughters'' (1864)

Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell. London: Routledge & Paul, 1979.

Matus, Jill L. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaskell_elizabeth.shtml

http://www.read-all-over.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elizabeth-gaskell2.jpg

File:Elizabeth Gaskell.jpg

2011-01-01T13:46:43Z

Lena:

Elizabeth Gaskell

2011-01-01T13:40:24Z

Lena:

'''Life'''

Elizabeth Gaskell was the second surviving child of the marriage between William Stevenson and Elizabeth Holland. The daughter was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on the 29th of September 1810 in Chelsea, London.

Elizabeth’s father was a Unitarian minister in Manchester. After her mother died one year after Elizabeth’s birth, she had to move to Knutsford in Cheshire and live with her aunt Hannah Holland, who was also known as “Aunt Lumb”, to whom she had a very good relationship.

From then on she only lived with her father from time to time. He married his second wife in 1814, which was a “very, very unhappy” time for Elizabeth.

In 1821, she began to study at Miss Byerlys’ school at Barford House. But later on she was sent to Avonbank School in Stratford upon Avon. She left this school in 1826 and went to London.
On the 20th of March 1829 her father suffered a stroke and died two days later.

In 1831 in Edinburgh she met her future husband William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father had been. They married in 1832 and moved to Manchester, where she gave birth to her five children Marianne, Meta, Florence Elizabeth, Julia and her son William, who died of scarlet fever shortly after his birth.

His death was an inspiration for Elizabeth to write her first novel Mary Barton, which was published anonymously in 1848. It was a great success and was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens. The latter offered her to make contributions to his magazine “Household Words”.

Being a good friend of Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth was asked by Charlotte’s father to write her biography. This biography ''Life of Charlotte Brontë'' was published in 1857.

Elizabeth Gaskell died in Hampshire on the 12th of November 1865 leaving the novel ''Wives and Daughters'' incomplete.

'''Works'''

''Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life'' (1848)

''Ruth'' (1853)

''Cranford'' (1853)

''North and South'' (1855)

''Lizzie Leigh and other Tales'' (1855)

''Life of Charlotte Brontë'' (1856)

''My Lady Ludow'' (1858)

''Adam Bede'' (1859)

''Round the Sofa and other Tales'' (1859)

''Lois the Witch and other Tales'' (1861)

''The Grey Woman'' (1861)

''A Dark Night’s Work'' (1863)

''Cousin Phillis'' (1864)

''Wives and Daughters'' (1864)

Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell. London: Routledge & Paul, 1979.

Matus, Jill L. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaskell_elizabeth.shtml

http://www.read-all-over.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elizabeth-gaskell2.jpg

Elizabeth Gaskell

2011-01-01T13:38:09Z

Lena:

'''Life'''

Elizabeth Gaskell was the second surviving child of the marriage between William Stevenson and Elizabeth Holland. The daughter was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on the 29th of September 1810 in Chelsea, London.

Elizabeth’s father was a Unitarian minister in Manchester. After her mother died one year after Elizabeth’s birth, she had to move to Knutsford in Cheshire and live with her aunt Hannah Holland, who was also known as “Aunt Lumb”, to whom she had a very good relationship.

From then on she only lived with her father from time to time. He married his second wife in 1814, which was a “very, very unhappy” time for Elizabeth.

In 1821, she began to study at Miss Byerlys’ school at Barford House. But later on she was sent to Avonbank School in Stratford upon Avon. She left this school in 1826 and went to London.
On the 20th of March 1829 her father suffered a stroke and died two days later.

In 1831 in Edinburgh she met her future husband William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father had been. They married in 1832 and moved to Manchester, where she gave birth to her five children Marianne, Meta, Florence Elizabeth, Julia and her son William, who died of scarlet fever shortly after his birth.

His death was an inspiration for Elizabeth to write her first novel Mary Barton, which was published anonymously in 1848. It was a great success and was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens. The latter offered her to make contributions to his magazine “Household Words”.

Being a good friend of Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth was asked by Charlotte’s father to write her biography. This biography “Life of Charlotte Brontë” was published in 1857.

Elizabeth Gaskell died in Hampshire on the 12th of November 1865 leaving the novel “Wives and Daughters” incomplete.

'''Works'''

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848)

Ruth (1853)

Cranford (1853)

North and South (1855)

Lizzie Leigh and other Tales (1855)

Life of Charlotte Brontë (1856)

My Lady Ludow (1858)

Adam Bede (1859)

Round the Sofa and other Tales (1859)

Lois the Witch and other Tales (1861)

The Grey Woman (1861)

A Dark Night’s Work (1863)

Cousin Phillis (1864)

Wives and Daughters (1864)

Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell. London: Routledge & Paul, 1979.

Matus, Jill L. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaskell_elizabeth.shtml

http://www.read-all-over.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elizabeth-gaskell2.jpg

Elizabeth Gaskell

2011-01-01T13:37:31Z

Lena:

'''Life'''

Elizabeth Gaskell was the second surviving child of the marriage between William Stevenson and Elizabeth Holland. The daughter was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on the 29th of September 1810 in Chelsea, London.

Elizabeth’s father was a Unitarian minister in Manchester. After her mother died one year after Elizabeth’s birth, she had to move to Knutsford in Cheshire and live with her aunt Hannah Holland, who was also known as “Aunt Lumb”, to whom she had a very good relationship.

From then on she only lived with her father from time to time. He married his second wife in 1814, which was a “very, very unhappy” time for Elizabeth.

In 1821, she began to study at Miss Byerlys’ school at Barford House. But later on she was sent to Avonbank School in Stratford upon Avon. She left this school in 1826 and went to London.
On the 20th of March 1829 her father suffered a stroke and died two days later.

In 1831 in Edinburgh she met her future husband William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father had been. They married in 1832 and moved to Manchester, where she gave birth to her five children Marianne, Meta, Florence Elizabeth, Julia and her son William, who died of scarlet fever shortly after his birth. His death was an inspiration for Elizabeth to write her first novel Mary Barton, which was published anonymously in 1848. It was a great success and was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens. The latter offered her to make contributions to his magazine “Household Words”. Being a good friend of Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth was asked by Charlotte’s father to write her biography. This biography “Life of Charlotte Brontë” was published in 1857.

Elizabeth Gaskell died in Hampshire on the 12th of November 1865 leaving the novel “Wives and Daughters” incomplete.

'''Works'''

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848)

Ruth (1853)

Cranford (1853)

North and South (1855)

Lizzie Leigh and other Tales (1855)

Life of Charlotte Brontë (1856)

My Lady Ludow (1858)

Adam Bede (1859)

Round the Sofa and other Tales (1859)

Lois the Witch and other Tales (1861)

The Grey Woman (1861)

A Dark Night’s Work (1863)

Cousin Phillis (1864)

Wives and Daughters (1864)

Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell. London: Routledge & Paul, 1979.

Matus, Jill L. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaskell_elizabeth.shtml

http://www.read-all-over.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elizabeth-gaskell2.jpg

Elizabeth Gaskell

2011-01-01T13:36:17Z

Lena:

'''Life'''

Elizabeth Gaskell was the second surviving child of the marriage between William Stevenson and Elizabeth Holland. The daughter was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on the 29th of September 1810 in Chelsea, London.

Elizabeth’s father was a Unitarian minister in Manchester. After her mother died one year after Elizabeth’s birth, she had to move to Knutsford in Cheshire and live with her aunt Hannah Holland, who was also known as “Aunt Lumb”, to whom she had a very good relationship.
From then on she only lived with her father from time to time. He married his second wife in 1814, which was a “very, very unhappy” time for Elizabeth.

In 1821, she began to study at Miss Byerlys’ school at Barford House. But later on she was sent to Avonbank School in Stratford upon Avon. She left this school in 1826 and went to London.
On the 20th of March 1829 her father suffered a stroke and died two days later.

In 1831 in Edinburgh she met her future husband William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father had been. They married in 1832 and moved to Manchester, where she gave birth to her five children Marianne, Meta, Florence Elizabeth, Julia and her son William, who died of scarlet fever shortly after his birth. His death was an inspiration for Elizabeth to write her first novel Mary Barton, which was published anonymously in 1848. It was a great success and was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens. The latter offered her to make contributions to his magazine “Household Words”. Being a good friend of Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth was asked by Charlotte’s father to write her biography. This biography “Life of Charlotte Brontë” was published in 1857.

Elizabeth Gaskell died in Hampshire on the 12th of November 1865 leaving the novel “Wives and Daughters” incomplete.

'''Works'''

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848)
Ruth (1853)
Cranford (1853)
North and South (1855)
Lizzie Leigh and other Tales (1855)
Life of Charlotte Brontë (1856)
My Lady Ludow (1858)
Adam Bede (1859)
Round the Sofa and other Tales (1859)
Lois the Witch and other Tales (1861)
The Grey Woman (1861)
A Dark Night’s Work (1863)
Cousin Phillis (1864)
Wives and Daughters (1864)

Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell. London: Routledge & Paul, 1979.

Matus, Jill L. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaskell_elizabeth.shtml

http://www.read-all-over.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elizabeth-gaskell2.jpg

Elizabeth Gaskell

2011-01-01T13:35:47Z

Lena:

'''Life'''

Elizabeth Gaskell was the second surviving child of the marriage between William Stevenson and Elizabeth Holland. The daughter was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on the 29th of September 1810 in Chelsea, London.

Elizabeth’s father was a Unitarian minister in Manchester. After her mother died one year after Elizabeth’s birth, she had to move to Knutsford in Cheshire and live with her aunt Hannah Holland, who was also known as “Aunt Lumb”, to whom she had a very good relationship.
From then on she only lived with her father from time to time. He married his second wife in 1814, which was a “very, very unhappy” time for Elizabeth.

In 1821, she began to study at Miss Byerlys’ school at Barford House. But later on she was sent to Avonbank School in Stratford upon Avon. She left this school in 1826 and went to London.
On the 20th of March 1829 her father suffered a stroke and died two days later.

In 1831 in Edinburgh she met her future husband William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father had been. They married in 1832 and moved to Manchester, where she gave birth to her five children Marianne, Meta, Florence Elizabeth, Julia and her son William, who died of scarlet fever shortly after his birth. His death was an inspiration for Elizabeth to write her first novel Mary Barton, which was published anonymously in 1848. It was a great success and was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens. The latter offered her to make contributions to his magazine “Household Words”. Being a good friend of Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth was asked by Charlotte’s father to write her biography. This biography “Life of Charlotte Brontë” was published in 1857.

Elizabeth Gaskell died in Hampshire on the 12th of November 1865 leaving the novel “Wives and Daughters” incomplete.

'''Works'''

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848)
Ruth (1853)
Cranford (1853)
North and South (1855)
Lizzie Leigh and other Tales (1855)
Life of Charlotte Brontë (1856)
My Lady Ludow (1858)
Adam Bede (1859)
Round the Sofa and other Tales (1859)
Lois the Witch and other Tales (1861)
The Grey Woman (1861)
A Dark Night’s Work (1863)
Cousin Phillis (1864)
Wives and Daughters (1864)

Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell. London: Routledge & Paul, 1979.
Matus, Jill L. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaskell_elizabeth.shtml
http://www.read-all-over.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elizabeth-gaskell2.jpg

Elizabeth Gaskell

2011-01-01T13:35:06Z

Lena:

'''Life'''

Elizabeth Gaskell was the second surviving child of the marriage between William Stevenson and Elizabeth Holland. The daughter was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on the 29th of September 1810 in Chelsea, London.

Elizabeth’s father was a Unitarian minister in Manchester. After her mother died one year after Elizabeth’s birth, she had to move to Knutsford in Cheshire and live with her aunt Hannah Holland, who was also known as “Aunt Lumb”, to whom she had a very good relationship. From then on she only lived with her father from time to time. He married his second wife in 1814, which was a “very, very unhappy” time for Elizabeth.

In 1821, she began to study at Miss Byerlys’ school at Barford House. But later on she was sent to Avonbank School in Stratford upon Avon. She left this school in 1826 and went to London.
On the 20th of March 1829 her father suffered a stroke and died two days later.

In 1831 in Edinburgh she met her future husband William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father had been. They married in 1832 and moved to Manchester, where she gave birth to her five children Marianne, Meta, Florence Elizabeth, Julia and her son William, who died of scarlet fever shortly after his birth. His death was an inspiration for Elizabeth to write her first novel Mary Barton, which was published anonymously in 1848. It was a great success and was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens. The latter offered her to make contributions to his magazine “Household Words”. Being a good friend of Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth was asked by Charlotte’s father to write her biography. This biography “Life of Charlotte Brontë” was published in 1857.

Elizabeth Gaskell died in Hampshire on the 12th of November 1865 leaving the novel “Wives and Daughters” incomplete.

'''Works'''

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848)
Ruth (1853)
Cranford (1853)
North and South (1855)
Lizzie Leigh and other Tales (1855)
Life of Charlotte Brontë (1856)
My Lady Ludow (1858)
Adam Bede (1859)
Round the Sofa and other Tales (1859)
Lois the Witch and other Tales (1861)
The Grey Woman (1861)
A Dark Night’s Work (1863)
Cousin Phillis (1864)
Wives and Daughters (1864)

Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell. London: Routledge & Paul, 1979.
Matus, Jill L. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaskell_elizabeth.shtml
http://www.read-all-over.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elizabeth-gaskell2.jpg

Elizabeth Gaskell

2011-01-01T13:34:53Z

Lena:

'''Life'''
Elizabeth Gaskell was the second surviving child of the marriage between William Stevenson and Elizabeth Holland. The daughter was born as Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on the 29th of September 1810 in Chelsea, London.

Elizabeth’s father was a Unitarian minister in Manchester. After her mother died one year after Elizabeth’s birth, she had to move to Knutsford in Cheshire and live with her aunt Hannah Holland, who was also known as “Aunt Lumb”, to whom she had a very good relationship. From then on she only lived with her father from time to time. He married his second wife in 1814, which was a “very, very unhappy” time for Elizabeth.

In 1821, she began to study at Miss Byerlys’ school at Barford House. But later on she was sent to Avonbank School in Stratford upon Avon. She left this school in 1826 and went to London.
On the 20th of March 1829 her father suffered a stroke and died two days later.

In 1831 in Edinburgh she met her future husband William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father had been. They married in 1832 and moved to Manchester, where she gave birth to her five children Marianne, Meta, Florence Elizabeth, Julia and her son William, who died of scarlet fever shortly after his birth. His death was an inspiration for Elizabeth to write her first novel Mary Barton, which was published anonymously in 1848. It was a great success and was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens. The latter offered her to make contributions to his magazine “Household Words”. Being a good friend of Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth was asked by Charlotte’s father to write her biography. This biography “Life of Charlotte Brontë” was published in 1857.

Elizabeth Gaskell died in Hampshire on the 12th of November 1865 leaving the novel “Wives and Daughters” incomplete.

'''Works'''
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848)
Ruth (1853)
Cranford (1853)
North and South (1855)
Lizzie Leigh and other Tales (1855)
Life of Charlotte Brontë (1856)
My Lady Ludow (1858)
Adam Bede (1859)
Round the Sofa and other Tales (1859)
Lois the Witch and other Tales (1861)
The Grey Woman (1861)
A Dark Night’s Work (1863)
Cousin Phillis (1864)
Wives and Daughters (1864)

Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell. London: Routledge & Paul, 1979.
Matus, Jill L. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gaskell_elizabeth.shtml
http://www.read-all-over.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elizabeth-gaskell2.jpg

Elizabeth Gaskell

2010-12-03T12:03:49Z

Lena:

1810-1865. Journalist and novellist.

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John Keats

2010-11-28T16:14:22Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

[[File:John-keats.jpg|300px|thumb|right|John Keats]]

'''Life:'''

John Keats was born on 31st of October 1795 in London and died at the early age of 25 on the 23rd of February 1821 in Rome.

His father passed away on 16th of April 1804 when he fell from a horse and was seriously injured. His mother remarried in the following year. She died in 1810 of tuberculosis. Hereupon John Keats was apprenticed to the surgeon Mr. Hammond in Edmonton. Six years later on 31st of October 1816 he withdrew from the medical world and dedicated his life to poetry. He published his first poems the same year.

On the 1st of December 1818 his brother Tom died of tuberculosis. As a result of that he moved to his friend Charles Brown to Wentworth Place. Here he became acquainted with Fanny Brawne, with whom he got engaged at the end of January 1819. Due to his bad financial situation there was no prospect of marriage. In this year he composed his most famous poems for example Ode on Indolence, La Belle Dame sans Merci, On Fame, To Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia and To Autumn.

On the 3rd of February 1820 his state of health suddenly became critical due to the first outbreak of tuberculosis. In September he decided to travel to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. In Rome he suffered another attack of his illness which he succumbed to on 23rd of February 1821. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

'''Works:'''

''To ****'' (1816)

''O Solitude!'' (1816)

''To My Brother George'' (1816)

''To my Brothers'' (1816)

''I stood tip-toe'' (1816)

''Sleep and Poetry'' (1817)

''To Haydon'' (1817)

''To the Nile'' (1818)

''Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds'' (1818)

''Ode to Fanny'' (1819)

''Ode to Indolence'' (1819)

''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' (1819)

''On Fame'' (1819)

''To Sleep'' (1819)

''To Psyche'' (1819)

''Ode to a Nightingale'' (1819)

''Otho the Great'' (1819)

''Lamia'' (1819)

''To Autumn'' (1819)

''Sonnet to George Keats: written in Sickness'' (1820)

''Bright Star, would I were stedfast'' (1820)

'''Sources:'''

Gothein, Marie. ''John Keats – Leben und Werke.'' Halle: Niemeyer, 1897.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keats_john.shtml

http://sensitivitytothings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/john-keats.jpg

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John Keats

2010-11-28T16:14:08Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

[[File:John-keats.jpg|400px|thumb|right|John Keats]]

'''Life:'''

John Keats was born on 31st of October 1795 in London and died at the early age of 25 on the 23rd of February 1821 in Rome.

His father passed away on 16th of April 1804 when he fell from a horse and was seriously injured. His mother remarried in the following year. She died in 1810 of tuberculosis. Hereupon John Keats was apprenticed to the surgeon Mr. Hammond in Edmonton. Six years later on 31st of October 1816 he withdrew from the medical world and dedicated his life to poetry. He published his first poems the same year.

On the 1st of December 1818 his brother Tom died of tuberculosis. As a result of that he moved to his friend Charles Brown to Wentworth Place. Here he became acquainted with Fanny Brawne, with whom he got engaged at the end of January 1819. Due to his bad financial situation there was no prospect of marriage. In this year he composed his most famous poems for example Ode on Indolence, La Belle Dame sans Merci, On Fame, To Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia and To Autumn.

On the 3rd of February 1820 his state of health suddenly became critical due to the first outbreak of tuberculosis. In September he decided to travel to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. In Rome he suffered another attack of his illness which he succumbed to on 23rd of February 1821. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

'''Works:'''

''To ****'' (1816)

''O Solitude!'' (1816)

''To My Brother George'' (1816)

''To my Brothers'' (1816)

''I stood tip-toe'' (1816)

''Sleep and Poetry'' (1817)

''To Haydon'' (1817)

''To the Nile'' (1818)

''Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds'' (1818)

''Ode to Fanny'' (1819)

''Ode to Indolence'' (1819)

''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' (1819)

''On Fame'' (1819)

''To Sleep'' (1819)

''To Psyche'' (1819)

''Ode to a Nightingale'' (1819)

''Otho the Great'' (1819)

''Lamia'' (1819)

''To Autumn'' (1819)

''Sonnet to George Keats: written in Sickness'' (1820)

''Bright Star, would I were stedfast'' (1820)

'''Sources:'''

Gothein, Marie. ''John Keats – Leben und Werke.'' Halle: Niemeyer, 1897.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keats_john.shtml

http://sensitivitytothings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/john-keats.jpg

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John Keats

2010-11-28T16:13:46Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

[[File:John-keats.jpg|200px|thumb|right|John Keats]]

'''Life:'''

John Keats was born on 31st of October 1795 in London and died at the early age of 25 on the 23rd of February 1821 in Rome.

His father passed away on 16th of April 1804 when he fell from a horse and was seriously injured. His mother remarried in the following year. She died in 1810 of tuberculosis. Hereupon John Keats was apprenticed to the surgeon Mr. Hammond in Edmonton. Six years later on 31st of October 1816 he withdrew from the medical world and dedicated his life to poetry. He published his first poems the same year.

On the 1st of December 1818 his brother Tom died of tuberculosis. As a result of that he moved to his friend Charles Brown to Wentworth Place. Here he became acquainted with Fanny Brawne, with whom he got engaged at the end of January 1819. Due to his bad financial situation there was no prospect of marriage. In this year he composed his most famous poems for example Ode on Indolence, La Belle Dame sans Merci, On Fame, To Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia and To Autumn.

On the 3rd of February 1820 his state of health suddenly became critical due to the first outbreak of tuberculosis. In September he decided to travel to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. In Rome he suffered another attack of his illness which he succumbed to on 23rd of February 1821. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

'''Works:'''

''To ****'' (1816)

''O Solitude!'' (1816)

''To My Brother George'' (1816)

''To my Brothers'' (1816)

''I stood tip-toe'' (1816)

''Sleep and Poetry'' (1817)

''To Haydon'' (1817)

''To the Nile'' (1818)

''Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds'' (1818)

''Ode to Fanny'' (1819)

''Ode to Indolence'' (1819)

''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' (1819)

''On Fame'' (1819)

''To Sleep'' (1819)

''To Psyche'' (1819)

''Ode to a Nightingale'' (1819)

''Otho the Great'' (1819)

''Lamia'' (1819)

''To Autumn'' (1819)

''Sonnet to George Keats: written in Sickness'' (1820)

''Bright Star, would I were stedfast'' (1820)

'''Sources:'''

Gothein, Marie. ''John Keats – Leben und Werke.'' Halle: Niemeyer, 1897.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keats_john.shtml

http://sensitivitytothings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/john-keats.jpg

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John Keats

2010-11-28T16:13:15Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

[[File:John-keats.jpg|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

'''Life:'''

John Keats was born on 31st of October 1795 in London and died at the early age of 25 on the 23rd of February 1821 in Rome.

His father passed away on 16th of April 1804 when he fell from a horse and was seriously injured. His mother remarried in the following year. She died in 1810 of tuberculosis. Hereupon John Keats was apprenticed to the surgeon Mr. Hammond in Edmonton. Six years later on 31st of October 1816 he withdrew from the medical world and dedicated his life to poetry. He published his first poems the same year.

On the 1st of December 1818 his brother Tom died of tuberculosis. As a result of that he moved to his friend Charles Brown to Wentworth Place. Here he became acquainted with Fanny Brawne, with whom he got engaged at the end of January 1819. Due to his bad financial situation there was no prospect of marriage. In this year he composed his most famous poems for example Ode on Indolence, La Belle Dame sans Merci, On Fame, To Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia and To Autumn.

On the 3rd of February 1820 his state of health suddenly became critical due to the first outbreak of tuberculosis. In September he decided to travel to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. In Rome he suffered another attack of his illness which he succumbed to on 23rd of February 1821. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

'''Works:'''

''To ****'' (1816)

''O Solitude!'' (1816)

''To My Brother George'' (1816)

''To my Brothers'' (1816)

''I stood tip-toe'' (1816)

''Sleep and Poetry'' (1817)

''To Haydon'' (1817)

''To the Nile'' (1818)

''Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds'' (1818)

''Ode to Fanny'' (1819)

''Ode to Indolence'' (1819)

''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' (1819)

''On Fame'' (1819)

''To Sleep'' (1819)

''To Psyche'' (1819)

''Ode to a Nightingale'' (1819)

''Otho the Great'' (1819)

''Lamia'' (1819)

''To Autumn'' (1819)

''Sonnet to George Keats: written in Sickness'' (1820)

''Bright Star, would I were stedfast'' (1820)

'''Sources:'''

Gothein, Marie. ''John Keats – Leben und Werke.'' Halle: Niemeyer, 1897.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keats_john.shtml

http://sensitivitytothings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/john-keats.jpg

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John Keats

2010-11-28T16:12:30Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

'''Life:'''

John Keats was born on 31st of October 1795 in London and died at the early age of 25 on the 23rd of February 1821 in Rome. [[File:John-keats.jpg|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

His father passed away on 16th of April 1804 when he fell from a horse and was seriously injured. His mother remarried in the following year. She died in 1810 of tuberculosis. Hereupon John Keats was apprenticed to the surgeon Mr. Hammond in Edmonton. Six years later on 31st of October 1816 he withdrew from the medical world and dedicated his life to poetry. He published his first poems the same year.

On the 1st of December 1818 his brother Tom died of tuberculosis. As a result of that he moved to his friend Charles Brown to Wentworth Place. Here he became acquainted with Fanny Brawne, with whom he got engaged at the end of January 1819. Due to his bad financial situation there was no prospect of marriage. In this year he composed his most famous poems for example Ode on Indolence, La Belle Dame sans Merci, On Fame, To Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia and To Autumn.

On the 3rd of February 1820 his state of health suddenly became critical due to the first outbreak of tuberculosis. In September he decided to travel to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. In Rome he suffered another attack of his illness which he succumbed to on 23rd of February 1821. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

'''Works:'''

''To ****'' (1816)

''O Solitude!'' (1816)

''To My Brother George'' (1816)

''To my Brothers'' (1816)

''I stood tip-toe'' (1816)

''Sleep and Poetry'' (1817)

''To Haydon'' (1817)

''To the Nile'' (1818)

''Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds'' (1818)

''Ode to Fanny'' (1819)

''Ode to Indolence'' (1819)

''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' (1819)

''On Fame'' (1819)

''To Sleep'' (1819)

''To Psyche'' (1819)

''Ode to a Nightingale'' (1819)

''Otho the Great'' (1819)

''Lamia'' (1819)

''To Autumn'' (1819)

''Sonnet to George Keats: written in Sickness'' (1820)

''Bright Star, would I were stedfast'' (1820)

'''Sources:'''

Gothein, Marie. ''John Keats – Leben und Werke.'' Halle: Niemeyer, 1897.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keats_john.shtml

http://sensitivitytothings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/john-keats.jpg

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John Keats

2010-11-28T16:12:08Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

'''Life:'''

John Keats was born on 31st of October 1795 in London and died at the early age of 25 on the 23rd of February 1821 in Rome. [[File:John-keats.png|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

His father passed away on 16th of April 1804 when he fell from a horse and was seriously injured. His mother remarried in the following year. She died in 1810 of tuberculosis. Hereupon John Keats was apprenticed to the surgeon Mr. Hammond in Edmonton. Six years later on 31st of October 1816 he withdrew from the medical world and dedicated his life to poetry. He published his first poems the same year.

On the 1st of December 1818 his brother Tom died of tuberculosis. As a result of that he moved to his friend Charles Brown to Wentworth Place. Here he became acquainted with Fanny Brawne, with whom he got engaged at the end of January 1819. Due to his bad financial situation there was no prospect of marriage. In this year he composed his most famous poems for example Ode on Indolence, La Belle Dame sans Merci, On Fame, To Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia and To Autumn.

On the 3rd of February 1820 his state of health suddenly became critical due to the first outbreak of tuberculosis. In September he decided to travel to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. In Rome he suffered another attack of his illness which he succumbed to on 23rd of February 1821. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

'''Works:'''

''To ****'' (1816)

''O Solitude!'' (1816)

''To My Brother George'' (1816)

''To my Brothers'' (1816)

''I stood tip-toe'' (1816)

''Sleep and Poetry'' (1817)

''To Haydon'' (1817)

''To the Nile'' (1818)

''Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds'' (1818)

''Ode to Fanny'' (1819)

''Ode to Indolence'' (1819)

''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' (1819)

''On Fame'' (1819)

''To Sleep'' (1819)

''To Psyche'' (1819)

''Ode to a Nightingale'' (1819)

''Otho the Great'' (1819)

''Lamia'' (1819)

''To Autumn'' (1819)

''Sonnet to George Keats: written in Sickness'' (1820)

''Bright Star, would I were stedfast'' (1820)

'''Sources:'''

Gothein, Marie. ''John Keats – Leben und Werke.'' Halle: Niemeyer, 1897.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keats_john.shtml

http://sensitivitytothings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/john-keats.jpg

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John Keats

2010-11-28T16:11:10Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

'''Life:'''

John Keats was born on 31st of October 1795 in London and died at the early age of 25 on the 23rd of February 1821 in Rome. [[File:John-keats.jpg]]

His father passed away on 16th of April 1804 when he fell from a horse and was seriously injured. His mother remarried in the following year. She died in 1810 of tuberculosis. Hereupon John Keats was apprenticed to the surgeon Mr. Hammond in Edmonton. Six years later on 31st of October 1816 he withdrew from the medical world and dedicated his life to poetry. He published his first poems the same year.

On the 1st of December 1818 his brother Tom died of tuberculosis. As a result of that he moved to his friend Charles Brown to Wentworth Place. Here he became acquainted with Fanny Brawne, with whom he got engaged at the end of January 1819. Due to his bad financial situation there was no prospect of marriage. In this year he composed his most famous poems for example Ode on Indolence, La Belle Dame sans Merci, On Fame, To Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia and To Autumn.

On the 3rd of February 1820 his state of health suddenly became critical due to the first outbreak of tuberculosis. In September he decided to travel to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. In Rome he suffered another attack of his illness which he succumbed to on 23rd of February 1821. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

'''Works:'''

''To ****'' (1816)

''O Solitude!'' (1816)

''To My Brother George'' (1816)

''To my Brothers'' (1816)

''I stood tip-toe'' (1816)

''Sleep and Poetry'' (1817)

''To Haydon'' (1817)

''To the Nile'' (1818)

''Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds'' (1818)

''Ode to Fanny'' (1819)

''Ode to Indolence'' (1819)

''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' (1819)

''On Fame'' (1819)

''To Sleep'' (1819)

''To Psyche'' (1819)

''Ode to a Nightingale'' (1819)

''Otho the Great'' (1819)

''Lamia'' (1819)

''To Autumn'' (1819)

''Sonnet to George Keats: written in Sickness'' (1820)

''Bright Star, would I were stedfast'' (1820)

'''Sources:'''

Gothein, Marie. ''John Keats – Leben und Werke.'' Halle: Niemeyer, 1897.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keats_john.shtml

http://sensitivitytothings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/john-keats.jpg

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John Keats

2010-11-28T16:10:09Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

'''Life:'''

John Keats was born on 31st of October 1795 in London and died at the early age of 25 on the 23rd of February 1821 in Rome. [[File:John-Keats.jpg]]

His father passed away on 16th of April 1804 when he fell from a horse and was seriously injured. His mother remarried in the following year. She died in 1810 of tuberculosis. Hereupon John Keats was apprenticed to the surgeon Mr. Hammond in Edmonton. Six years later on 31st of October 1816 he withdrew from the medical world and dedicated his life to poetry. He published his first poems the same year.

On the 1st of December 1818 his brother Tom died of tuberculosis. As a result of that he moved to his friend Charles Brown to Wentworth Place. Here he became acquainted with Fanny Brawne, with whom he got engaged at the end of January 1819. Due to his bad financial situation there was no prospect of marriage. In this year he composed his most famous poems for example Ode on Indolence, La Belle Dame sans Merci, On Fame, To Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia and To Autumn.

On the 3rd of February 1820 his state of health suddenly became critical due to the first outbreak of tuberculosis. In September he decided to travel to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. In Rome he suffered another attack of his illness which he succumbed to on 23rd of February 1821. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

'''Works:'''

''To ****'' (1816)

''O Solitude!'' (1816)

''To My Brother George'' (1816)

''To my Brothers'' (1816)

''I stood tip-toe'' (1816)

''Sleep and Poetry'' (1817)

''To Haydon'' (1817)

''To the Nile'' (1818)

''Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds'' (1818)

''Ode to Fanny'' (1819)

''Ode to Indolence'' (1819)

''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' (1819)

''On Fame'' (1819)

''To Sleep'' (1819)

''To Psyche'' (1819)

''Ode to a Nightingale'' (1819)

''Otho the Great'' (1819)

''Lamia'' (1819)

''To Autumn'' (1819)

''Sonnet to George Keats: written in Sickness'' (1820)

''Bright Star, would I were stedfast'' (1820)

'''Sources:'''

Gothein, Marie. ''John Keats – Leben und Werke.'' Halle: Niemeyer, 1897.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keats_john.shtml

http://sensitivitytothings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/john-keats.jpg

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File:John-keats.jpg

2010-11-28T16:07:03Z

Lena:

John Keats

2010-11-28T16:04:34Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

'''Life:'''

John Keats was born on 31st of October 1795 in London and died at the early age of 25 on the 23rd of February 1821 in Rome.

His father passed away on 16th of April 1804 when he fell from a horse and was seriously injured. His mother remarried in the following year. She died in 1810 of tuberculosis. Hereupon John Keats was apprenticed to the surgeon Mr. Hammond in Edmonton. Six years later on 31st of October 1816 he withdrew from the medical world and dedicated his life to poetry. He published his first poems the same year.

On the 1st of December 1818 his brother Tom died of tuberculosis. As a result of that he moved to his friend Charles Brown to Wentworth Place. Here he became acquainted with Fanny Brawne, with whom he got engaged at the end of January 1819. Due to his bad financial situation there was no prospect of marriage. In this year he composed his most famous poems for example Ode on Indolence, La Belle Dame sans Merci, On Fame, To Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia and To Autumn.

On the 3rd of February 1820 his state of health suddenly became critical due to the first outbreak of tuberculosis. In September he decided to travel to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. In Rome he suffered another attack of his illness which he succumbed to on 23rd of February 1821. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

'''Works:'''

''To ****'' (1816)

''O Solitude!'' (1816)

''To My Brother George'' (1816)

''To my Brothers'' (1816)

''I stood tip-toe'' (1816)

''Sleep and Poetry'' (1817)

''To Haydon'' (1817)

''To the Nile'' (1818)

''Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds'' (1818)

''Ode to Fanny'' (1819)

''Ode to Indolence'' (1819)

''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' (1819)

''On Fame'' (1819)

''To Sleep'' (1819)

''To Psyche'' (1819)

''Ode to a Nightingale'' (1819)

''Otho the Great'' (1819)

''Lamia'' (1819)

''To Autumn'' (1819)

''Sonnet to George Keats: written in Sickness'' (1820)

''Bright Star, would I were stedfast'' (1820)

'''Sources:'''

Gothein, Marie. ''John Keats – Leben und Werke.'' Halle: Niemeyer, 1897.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keats_john.shtml

http://sensitivitytothings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/john-keats.jpg

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John Keats

2010-11-28T16:02:04Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

'''Life:'''
John Keats was born on 31st of October 1795 in London and died at the early age of 25 on the 23rd of February 1821 in Rome.
His father passed away on 16th of April 1804 when he fell from a horse and was seriously injured. His mother remarried in the following year. She died in 1810 of tuberculosis. Hereupon John Keats was apprenticed to the surgeon Mr. Hammond in Edmonton. Six years later on 31st of October 1816 he withdrew from the medical world and dedicated his life to poetry. He published his first poems the same year.
On the 1st of December 1818 his brother Tom died of tuberculosis. As a result of that he moved to his friend Charles Brown to Wentworth Place. Here he became acquainted with Fanny Brawne, with whom he got engaged at the end of January 1819. Due to his bad financial situation there was no prospect of marriage. In this year he composed his most famous poems for example Ode on Indolence, La Belle Dame sans Merci, On Fame, To Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia and To Autumn.
On the 3rd of February 1820 his state of health suddenly became critical due to the first outbreak of tuberculosis. In September he decided to travel to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. In Rome he suffered another attack of his illness which he succumbed to on 23rd of February 1821. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

'''Works:'''
''To ****'' (1816)
''O Solitude!'' (1816)
''To My Brother George'' (1816)
''To my Brothers'' (1816)
''I stood tip-toe'' (1816)
''Sleep and Poetry'' (1817)
''To Haydon'' (1817)
''To the Nile'' (1818)
''Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds'' (1818)
''Ode to Fanny'' (1819)
''Ode to Indolence'' (1819)
''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' (1819)
''On Fame'' (1819)
''To Sleep'' (1819)
''To Psyche'' (1819)
''Ode to a Nightingale'' (1819)
''Otho the Great'' (1819)
''Lamia'' (1819)
''To Autumn'' (1819)
''Sonnet to George Keats: written in Sickness'' (1820)
''Bright Star, would I were stedfast'' (1820)

'''Sources:'''
Gothein, Marie. ''John Keats – Leben und Werke.'' Halle: Niemeyer, 1897.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keats_john.shtml
http://sensitivitytothings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/john-keats.jpg

John Keats

2010-11-27T15:18:37Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

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2010-11-24T22:14:07Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

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John Keats

2010-11-24T22:13:45Z

Lena:

1795-1821. British Romantic poet. Wrote about Grecian Urns, Nightingales and Belles Dames.

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