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Sketches among the Poor
by
Elizabeth Gaskell
'Sketches among the Poor, No. I', a poem in rhyming couplets of 153 lines, was almost certainly written in the summer of 1836. It appeared in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
> the following January, sandwiched between 'The World We Live In' (an article about Peel and the constitution) and the final piece in a satirical series called 'Alcibiades the Man'. The placing is oddly appropriate since the Gaskells' poem is about the world they lived in—a world light-years from Westminster—and it is about wisdom, the unspoken philosophy of a woman, not an articulate man.
Jenny Uglow,
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories
> (London: Faber and Faber, 1993), p.101.
SKETCHES AMONG THE POOR, NO. I
In childhood's days, I do remember me
Of one dark house behind an old elm-tree,
By gloomy streets surrounded, where the flower
Brought from the fresher air, scarce for an hour
Retained its fragrant scent; yet men lived there,
Yea, and in happiness; the mind doth c . . .
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