# Half a Life-Time Ago

Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2547

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Half+a+Life-Time+Ago+Gaskell&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Half a life-time ago, there lived in one of the Westmoreland dales a single woman, of the name of Susan Dixon. She was owner of the small farm-house where she resided, and of some thirty or forty acres of land by which it was surrounded. She had also an hereditary right to a sheep-walk, extending to the wild fells that overhang Blea Tarn. In the language of the country she was a Stateswoman. Her house is yet to be seen on the Oxenfell road, between Skelwith and Coniston. You go along a moorland track, made by the carts that occasionally came for turf from the Oxenfell. A brook babbles and brattles by the wayside, giving you a sense of companionship, which relieves the deep solitude in whi...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-a-life-time-ago-2547/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-a-life-time-ago-2547/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-a-life-time-ago-2547/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-a-life-time-ago-2547/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/half-a-life-time-ago-2547/chapters/2/index.md)