The
Gaskell Page A Comprehensive web page dedicated to the works of
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65). It includes ALL of Mrs. Gaskell's writings as
etexts, as well as a lot of ancillary material about 19th-century England.
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910): Rural
Hygiene Life on the farm was not that much of an improvement over a
factory. But, eventually, the social activists turned their eyes on the
countryside as well.
Emma Lazarus: "The
New Colossus", 1883 The poem on the Statute of Liberty.