The Last Generation in England
"The Last Generation in England" is a non-fiction article by Elizabeth Gaskell, published in the American Sartain's Union Magazine in July 1849, relating memories of a small country town in the generation prior to her own. As such, it is seen as the real-life background for her 1853 novel Cranford.[by whom?] Recognising she was living through a time of great and rapid change, Gaskell was inspired to write the article by reading that the author Robert Southey had himself once considered composing a history of English domestic life.[citation needed]
External links
- "The Last Generation in England", first page
- Uglow, Jenny (3 November 2007). "Band of women". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
- Mary Barton (1848)
- Cranford (1851–1853)
- Ruth (1853)
- North and South (1854–1855)
- My Lady Ludlow (1858–1859)
- A Dark Night's Work (1863)
- Sylvia's Lovers (1863)
- Cousin Phillis (1863–1864)
- Wives and Daughters (1864–1866)
- Round the Sofa (1859)
- Lois the Witch (1861)
- Mr. Harrison's Confessions (1851)
- The Poor Clare (1856)
- "The Haunted House" (1858)
- "A House to Let" (1858)
- "The Last Generation in England" (1849)
- The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)
- Elizabeth Gaskell house
- William Gaskell (husband)
- William Stevenson (father)
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