407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell
The History of Literature
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The Household Words of Elizabeth Gaskell
The correspondence between Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell is fascinating. Unfortunately, many of the letters he received were destroyed. One of his editorial suggestions was a Disneyfication, a happy ending. He had told her from the beginning that he was reaching out to her because in Mary Barton she'd written so well.
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