Mrs Gaskell And Me Nell Stevens by Nell Stevens 9781509868193, 1509868194 instant download after payment.

'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming – a delicious celebration of love & life' – Rebecca Stott, author of In the Days of Rain 

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In 1857, Elizabeth Gaskell set sail for Rome, a city that would prove to be a place of inspiration & love: she would make enduring friendships, & meet a man – Charles Norton – who would become the love of her life. 

In 2013, Nell Stevens is writing about Mrs Gaskell in Rome, & falling drastically in love with a man who lives in another city altogether. As Nell chases her heart around the world, & as Mrs Gaskell forms the greatest connection of her life, these two women, though centuries apart, are drawn together, & for Nell, Mrs Gaskell becomes more than a figure from the past. Here is a confidante, a friend, a woman who – living outside the conventions of her time – might have some wisdom to offer Nell. Mrs Gaskell & Me is about unrequited love & the romance of friendship, it is about forming a way of life outside the conventions of your time, & it offers Nell the opportunity – even as her own relationship falls apart – to give Mrs Gaskell the ending she deserved.

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Nell Stevens has a degree in English & creative writing from the University of Warwick, an M.F.A. in fiction from Boston University, & a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from King’s College London. She is the author of the memoir Bleaker House & is at work on a novel. 

www.nellstevens.com