The old nurse's story
dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
dc.contributor.author | Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:32:12Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:32:12Z |
dc.date.created | 1852 |
dc.identifier | ota:3108 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3108 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3108 |
dc.description.abstract | First edition published in 1852. |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
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dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Short stories -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
dc.title | The old nurse's story |
dc.type | Text |
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otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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The Old Nurse's Story
by
Elizabeth Gaskell
[The Old Nurse's Story]
You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grand-father was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from. I was just a girl in the village school, when, one day, your grandmother came in to ask the mistress if there was any scholar there who would do for a nurse-maid; and mighty proud I was, I can tell ye, when the mistress called me up, and spoke to my being a good girl at my needle, and a steady, honest girl, and one whose parents were very respectable, though they might be poor I thoughtI should like nothing better than to serve the pretty, young lady, who was blushing as deep as I was, as she spoke of the coming baby, and what I should have to do with it. However, I see you don't care so much for this part of my story, as for what you think is to come, so I'll tell you at once. I was engaged and settled at the parsonage before Miss Rosamond (th . . .

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