The heart of John Middleton
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:32:10Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:32:10Z |
| dc.date.created | 1850 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3106 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3106 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3106 |
| dc.description.abstract | First edition published in 1850. |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
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| dc.relation.replaces | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2158 |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Short stories -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.title | The heart of John Middleton |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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The Heart of John Middleton
by
Elizabeth Gaskell
[The Heart of John Middleton]
I was born at Sawley, where the shadow of Pendle Hill falls at sunrise. I suppose Sawley sprang up into a village in the time of the monks, who had an abbey there. Many of the cottages are strange old places; others, again, are built of the abbey stones, mixed up with the shale from the neighbouring quarries; and you may see many a quaint bit of carving worked into the walls, or forming the lintels of the doors. There is a row of houses, built still more recently, where one Mr Peel came to live there for the sake of the water-power, and gave the place a fillip into something like life; though a different kind of life, as I take it, from the grand, slow ways folks had when the monks were about.
Now it was—six o'clock, ring the bell, throng to the factory; sharp home at twelve; and even at night, when work was done, we hardly knew how to walk slowly, we had been so bustled all day long. I can't recollect the t . . .
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