Jan 11, 2026 Livi Michael

Elizabeth and Ruth – the questions I had to ask

Pasley’s story as presented in the letter from Elizabeth Gaskell to Charles Dickens is both tragic and dramatic, but there are so many gaps in it that I had to do further research to fill them in. And some of them couldn’t be filled in directly so I had to make educated guesses about such questions as: What was Pasley’s life like in the orphanage? With...

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