The Unwritten Fiction of Dead Brothers
Dinah Birch, 2 October 1997
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years
by John Chapple.
Manchester, 492 pp., £25, May 1997,0 7190 2550 8 Show More
by John Chapple.
Manchester, 492 pp., £25, May 1997,
“... who was just a year old. She may, or may not, have had six other children who died in infancy. John Chapple is punctilious about what he calls ‘the knotty entrails of oaken facts’, and will not pretend to know what he cannot prove. The pathos of Mrs Stevenson’s faded existence is not lost on him, and he does what he can for her ... ”