Mrs. Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë

Eric Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell and mesmerism: an unpublished letter.

The work of Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) is not often seen as a source for the student of medical history. However, the picture of her as a undemanding writer dealing primarily with domestic life found in Lord David Cecil's Early Victorian novelists' has now largely been replaced by an approach that recognizes her engagement with the wider social issues of mid-nineteenth century England. Criti...

Walter Gaskell and the understanding of atrioventricular conduction and block.

Walter Holbrook Gaskell was a nineteenth-century British physiologist whose investigations from 1874 until 1889 became central to our current understanding of cardiac physiology. His many cardiac contributions include the following: 1) the recognition of certain inherent properties of cardiac muscle; 2) the experimental proof that led to the acceptance of the myogenic theory of the origin of th...

Charlotte and the American Dilemma

"Race, today as much as ever, is the American dilemma." 1 Paying homage to Gunnar Myrdal 2 and recognizing nearly four centuries of American history, Professor Davison Douglas tellingly opens his book Reading, Writing and Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools (Reading, Writing and Race). 3 Professor Douglas comprehensively and perceptively assesses desegregation of the public schools...

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