The Half-Brothers

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The Half-Brothers is by Elizabeth Gaskell. A narrator says that their mother was twice married and never spoke of her first husband. The narrator's mother is left a young widow of twenty, with a little child only just able to walk.

The little girl takes ill of scarlet fever only a fortnight before Gregory is born, and in a week she lies dead. The schoolmaster grew weary of scolding and flogging and advised the narrator's father to take one pupil away and set him to some farm-work that might not be above his comprehension. The text says Gregory had risen up, and whistled Lassie out with him.

About the author

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and biographer whose fiction ranged across Victorian society from mill towns to country parishes. Remembered for Mary Barton, Cranford, and North and South, she wrote with sympathy for the poor and for women, and produced the first major life of her friend Charlotte Bronte.