Cousin Phillis
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T09:57:25Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T09:57:25Z |
| dc.date.created | 1863 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3109 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3109 |
| dc.description.abstract | First edition published in 1863. |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
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| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.title | Cousin Phillis |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell [Part I] It is a great thing for a lad when he is first turned into the independence of lodgings. I do not think I ever was so satisfied and proud in my life as when, at seventeen, I sate down in a little three-cornered room above a pastry-cook's shop in the county town of Eltham. My father had left me that afternoon, after delivering himself of a few plain precepts, strongly expressed, for my guidance in the new course of life on which I was entering. I was to be a clerk under the engineer who had undertaken to make the little branch line from Eltham to Hornby. My father had got me this situation, which was in a position rather above his own in life; or perhaps I should say, above the station in which he was born and bred; for he was raising himself every year in men's consideration and respect. He was a mechanic by trade, but he had some inventive genius, and a great deal of perseverance, and had devised several valuable improvements in railway mac . . .
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