Breaking the Borders: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Travel, ‘French Life’ and its Spatial Intertextuality
Journal: International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Year: 2023

According to the nineteenth-century ideology of separate spheres, women were supposed to avoid the public sphere and to stay at home, as depicted in most artistic and literary representations. Even though much content in her travel writing represented by letters and the journal article ‘French Life’ is about daily living in ordinary foreign societies, I argue that Elizabeth Gaskell is treating some basic questions of human and social values such as class differences and gender distinctions. This