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The Old Nurse's Story (short story)

  • Type: Short Story

The Old Nurse's Story is a 1852 short story by author Elizabeth Gaskell. - AsNotedIn

You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmorland, where I come from.




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Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1852/12/00 Elizabeth Gaskell Author "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell is told in Charles Dickens's magazine Household Words' Christmas issue, "A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire".
1852/12/00 Household Words Publisher "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell is told in Charles Dickens's magazine Household Words' Christmas issue, "A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire".

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Particulars for The Old Nurse's Story (short story):
Season Christmas the annual Christian festival celebrating Christ's birth, late December in the Western Church
Narrative Arts Fiction prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Supernatural Ghost an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image
Narrative Arts Gothic Fiction genre of decaying settings, medieval locales with dark atmosphere of isolation, mystery and terror
Narrative Arts Narrative an account of connected events
Narrative Arts Prose ordinary written language
Art Type Short Story short form narrative fiction
Paranormal Supernatural manifestation or event attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature
Literary Attribute Victorian Ghost Story supernatural stories of mystery, atmospheric settings, but typically not horror or violent

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Original Language: English



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