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Text Box: Left: Capesthorne, parkland. 'I am going to Capesthorne for a couple of days' (Mrs Gaskell to her daughter Marianne, 1851, Chapple and Pollard, p.163)   

Text Box: Above: Auchencairn, facing East.'The air is delicious, and most invigorating; butcher's meat to be had every day which is lucky, considering our appetites; but potatoes a delicacy not to be purchased nearer than Castle Douglas, nine miles away' (The Letters of  Mrs Gaskell, eds. Chapple and Pollard, Manchester, 1966, p.565). Right: Silverdale, looking towards the Cove. 'I think, [...] that one never is disappointed in coming back to Silverdale' (Chapple and Pollard, p.514).     Above right: Auchencairn, facing East. 'The air is delicious, and most invigorating' (Chapple and Pollard, p.565).  

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Right: Whitby, showing cliffs, sands, sea and headland.

 

 

 

Text Box: Left: Abbey Terrace, Whitby, where Mrs Gaskell stayed with two of her daughters when preparing to write Sylvia's Lovers, in 1859. Below Whitby harbour, east side

 

       

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