Some passages from the history of the Chomley family; The deserted mansion ; A fear for the future
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| dc.contributor.author | Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 |
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| dc.date.created | 1857 |
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| dc.description.abstract | Text transcribed from: Vol. LXXII, Nov. 1865, p. 387-402 Text transcribed from: Vol. XLIV, July, 1851, p. 40-43 Text transcribed from: Vol. LIX, Feb. 1859, p. 243-248 Text transcribed from v. 2, no. 36(Sept. 4, 1847), p. 149-152 Issued weekly Editors: William and Mary Howitt Periodical absorbed in July 1848 by: People's journal (London, England) Text transcribed from: Vol. LXVII, Feb. 1863, p. 265-272 Text transcribed from: Vol. XLVIII, Oct. 1853, p. 434-445, and Nov. 1853, p. 526-534 Text transcribed from: Vol. LVI, Oct. 1857, p. 296-298 |
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| dc.title | Some passages from the history of the Chomley family; The deserted mansion ; A fear for the future |
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Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family
by
Elizabeth Gaskell
Fraser's Magazine, Vol. 72, Nov. 1865, pp. 387-402
[Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family]
The majority of men are so much occupied now-a-days with the present and the future, that they are unwilling to cast a glance upon the past. It seems a matter of little importance to them that even the very names of families, the members of which played a busy part in the history of their country, should die out unnoticed and uncared for. Yet it would not surely be so if we were better aware how much of interest lies in the story of the lives and careers of some of the “forebears” of our English gentry. Still it is not often that a fortunate chance enables us to see our ancestors as they lived and moved among their cotemporaries. Too frequently the details handed down respecting them are so few and meagre, that it is impossible to form out of them a faithful picture of either the men or their surroundings. Th . . .
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