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    The Half-Brothers
    The Half-Brothers
    The Half-Brothers
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    The Half-Brothers

    By Elizabeth Gaskell

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 2004
    The Half-Brothers
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    Elizabeth Gaskell

    Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson (Gaskell de casada) nació en Londres en 1810. En 1832 contrajo matrimonio con William Gaskell, ministro unitario, y la pareja se estableció en Manchester, una ciudad sometida a las secuelas de la revolución Industrial. El choque que supuso el contacto con esta sociedad quedaría reflejado en varias de sus novelas: Mary Barton (1848; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR NÚM. LIV) o Norte y Sur (1855; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XXIV). En 1857 publicó la Vida de Charlotte Brontë (ALBA CLÁSICA BIOGRAFÍAS, núm. IV), una de las biografías más destacadas del siglo XIX. Otras obras suyas son La casa del páramo (1850; ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. CIV), Cranford (1851-1853; ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. XLII), Cuentos góticos (ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. XCIV), Los amores de Sylvia (1863), La prima Phyllis (1863-1864; ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. CIII), e Hijas y esposas (1864-1866; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XLII), cuyos últimos capítulos dejaría sin concluir a su muerte, acaecida en 1865 en Alton, Hampshire.

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      Title: The Half-Brothers

      Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HALF-BROTHERS***

      Transcribed from the 1896 Smith, Elder and Co. Lizzie Leigh and Other Tales edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk.  Proofed by Jennifer Lee, Alev Akman and Andy Wallace.

      THE HALF-BROTHERS

      by Elizabeth Gaskell

      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 Cumberland, somewhere towards the sea-coast; but he was perhaps too young and inexperienced to have the charge of land and cattle: anyhow, his affairs did not prosper, and he fell into ill health, and died of consumption before they had been three years man and wife, leaving my mother a young widow of twenty, with a little child only just able to walk, and the farm on her hands for four years more by the lease, with half the stock on it dead, or sold off one by one to pay the more pressing debts, and with no money to purchase more, or even to buy the provisions needed for the small consumption of every day.  There was another child coming, too; and sad and sorry, I believe, she was to think of it.  A dreary winter she must have had in her lonesome dwelling, with never another near it for miles around; her sister came to bear her company, and they two planned and plotted how to make every penny they could raise go as far as possible.  I can’t tell you how it happened that my little sister, whom I never saw, came to sicken and die; but, as if my poor mother’s cup was not full enough, only a fortnight before Gregory was born the little girl took ill of scarlet fever, and in a week she lay dead.  My mother was,

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