Elizabeth Stone

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Elizabeth Stone published several novels during the 1840s and 50s, including early Condition of England novels. She continued to publish in her other chosen genres (social history and religious books) for another two decades. Despite her contribution to an emerging genre that became a defining feature of the nineteenth-century literary landscape, her work has received minimal scholarly attention. Many of the plot elements and motifs in ES 's sometimes awkward novels were mirrored in the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell .
Some library catalogues mistakenly attribute books written by another Elizabeth Stone , who wrote under the pseudonym Sutherland Menzies in the 1870's, to this Elizabeth Stone.
  • BirthName: Elizabeth Wheeler
  • Married: Stone
    Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Milestones

25 April 1803

ES was christened on this date in Manchester, in the cathedral there.
Kestner, Joseph A. “A Manchester Woman’s Wordsworth: Elisabeth Stone and The Horn of Egremont Castle”. The Wordsworth Circle, Vol.
14
, No. 2, 1 Mar.–31 May 1983, pp. 107-8.
108n2
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By 1 October 1842

Elizabeth Stone published William Langshawe, the Cotton Lord, which is one of the earliest industrial novels.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
779 (1842): 846

1873

ES (not Sutherland Menzies but the author of William Langshawe) issued, again at Worthing in Sussex, her final publication, a book of verse entitled Three Incidents, Strictly True.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

September 1881

ES was still alive at the time of the British census this year, but she was probably the seventy-eight-year-old woman of this name who died that September at East Preston in Sussex, close to where she had been living.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Biography

Birth and Family

25 April 1803

ES was christened on this date in Manchester, in the cathedral there.
Kestner, Joseph A. “A Manchester Woman’s Wordsworth: Elisabeth Stone and The Horn of Egremont Castle”. The Wordsworth Circle, Vol.
14
, No. 2, 1 Mar.–31 May 1983, pp. 107-8.
108n2
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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