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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's Half-Brothersfollows two brothers, Gregory, and his younger brother, who is left unnamed. After the death of her first husband, Helen, Gregory's mother, remarries a man named William Preston. Together, they conceive a child, but Helen tragically... Read Full Overview

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's Half-Brothersfollows two brothers, Gregory, and his younger brother, who is left unnamed. After the death of her first husband, Helen, Gregory's mother, remarries a man named William Preston. Together, they conceive a child, but Helen tragically... Read Full Overview

" ...]not more food-for he always had enough, whoever went short-but better nourishment, and more flesh-meat. One day-it was aunt Fanny who told me all this about my poor mother, long after her death-as the sisters were sitting together, aunt Fanny working, and my mother hushing... Read Full Overview

My mother was twice married. She never spoke of her first husband, and it is only from other people that I have learnt what little I know about him. I believe she was scarcely seventeen when she was married to him: and he was barely one-and-twenty. He rented a small farm up in... Read Full Overview