Authors Posters & Prints, “Gas...-Gay...-”
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers and scholars.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
b. 9-29-1810; London, England
d. 11-12-1865

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson, was a novelist and short story writer whose detailed descriptions of Victorian social strata is of interest to social historians. Among her notable works are Wives & Daughters, Cranford, and North and South. Mrs. Gaskell also wrote a biography of Charlotte Brontë.

• The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection (Wives & Daughters / Cranford / North and South) - DVD

Théophile Gautier
b. 8-30-1811; Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
d. 10-23-1872; Paris

Théophile Gautier, described as a Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet, inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town, was one of the major figures and great characters of French literature.

Gautier also provided the liberetto in his collaboration with choreographer Jean Coralli for the ballet Giselle, particularly for his friend, the ballerina Carlotta Grisi.

• Mademoiselle de Maupin

John Gay
b. 6-30-1685; Barnstable, England
d. 12-4-1732

Poet and dramatist John Gay is best remembered for his 1728 The Beggar's Opera which was the basis of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Three Penny Opera.

Inscribed on Gay's tomb in Westminster Abbey is his couplet:
Life is a jest, and all things show it,
I thought so once, and now I know it.

FYI ~ The actress Kitty Clive was famous for playing the role of Polly.