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.
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 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". |
| Particulars for The Old Nurse's Story (short story): | |||
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| 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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