Detail View: Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: JRL050436dc
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Image Number:
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JRL050436dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 730/4
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Page of letter
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Series Title:
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Letters to Elizabeth and William Gaskell, c1847-1868
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Parent Work Title:
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Letter from Samuel Bamford to Elizabeth Gaskell
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Creator:
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Bamford, Samuel, 1788-1872
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Date Created:
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1849-03-09
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Page/Sheet:
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6-7
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Image Sequence Number:
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006
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Description:
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Pages from a letter to Elizabeth Gaskell from Samuel Bamford in which he commends her depiction of the poor in "Mary Barton". Although he finds some errors with her rendering of the Lancashire dialect he is surprised that there are so few.
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Language Code:
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eng-GB
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Language:
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English
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Subject:
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English literature
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Letters (correspondence)
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Time Period Covered:
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19th Century CE
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People Covered:
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
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Provenance:
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Gaskell, Margaret Emily (Meta), 1837-1913, former owner
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Rights holder - Work:
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Copyright restrictions may apply
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Notes:
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Finding aids: M. Tyson, Handlist of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1929), and additional volumes by M. Tyson (1935), F. Taylor (1951), and G.A. Matheson and F. Taylor (1977); F. Taylor, Supplementary Handlist of Western Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1937), pp. 21-31; card index of autograph collections.
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