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She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë . Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature.  \nAlso available on Feedbooks Gaskell:  \n Curious, If True: Strange Tales (1859)  \n North and South (1855)  \n Cranford (1851)  \n A Dark Night's Work (1863)  \n My Lady Ludlow (1858)  \n Sylvia's Lovers (1863)  \n Mary Barton (1848)  \nNote: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks  \n[http://www.feedbooks.com](http://www.feedbooks.com)  \nStrictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes.  \nCh t 1   \nap er  \nThe Dawn of a Gala Day  \nTo begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that room there was a bed, and in that bed there lay a little girl; wide awake and longing to get up, but not daring to do so for fear of the unseen power in the next room—a certain Betty, whose slumbers must not be disturbed until six o'clock struck, when she wakened of herself 'as sure as clockwork', and left the household very little peace afterwards. It was a June morning, and early as it was, the room was full of sunny warmth and light.  \nOn the drawers opposite to the little white dimity bed in which Molly Gibson lay, was a primitive kind of bonnet-stand on which was hung a bonnet, carefully covered over from any chance of dust, with a large cotton handkerchief, of so heavy and serviceable a texture that if the thing underneath it had been a flimsy fabric of gauze and lace and flowers, it would have been altogether 'scromfished' (again to quote from Betty's vocabulary) . But the bonnet was made of solid straw, and its only trimming was a plain white ribbon put over the crown, and forming the strings. Still, there was a neat little quilling inside, every plait of which Molly knew, for had she not made it herself the evening before, with infinite pains? and was there not a little blue bow in this quilling, the very first bit of such finery Molly had ever had the prospect of wearing?  \nSix o'clock now! the pleasant, brisk ringing of the church bells told that; calling every one to their daily work, as they had done for hundreds of years. Up jumped Molly, and ran with her bare little feet across the room, and lifted off the handkerchief and saw once again the bonnet; the pledge of the gay bright day to come. Then to the window, and after some tugging she opened the casement, and let in the sweet morning air. The dew was already off the flowers in the garden below, but still rising from the long hay-grass  \nin the meadows directly beyond. At one side lay the little town of Hollingford, into a street of which Mr. Gibson's front door opened; and delicate columns, and little puffs of smoke were already beginning to rise from many a cottage chimney where some housewife was already up, and preparing breakfast for the bread-winner of the family.  \nMolly Gibson saw all this, but all she thought about it was, 'Oh! it will bea fine day! I was afraid it never, never would come; or that, if it ever came, it would be a rainy day!' Five-and-forty years ago, children's pleasures in a country town were very simple, and Molly had lived for twelve long years without the occurrence of any event so great as that which was now impending. Poor child! it is true that she had lost her mother, which was ajar to the whole tenour of her life; but that was hardly an event in the sense referred to; and ","cbCaigi9XCJHlP1Q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigi9XCJHlP1Q","pdf",3940896,640,"English","# The Dawn of a Gala Day\n## Molly Gibson’s morning wake-up and preparations\n## Hollingford and the Cumnor family\n## Local festival anticipation and social context","[{\"question\":\"Who is the main focus at the start of Chapter 1?\",\"answer\":\"The chapter centers on Molly Gibson, beginning with her waking at six o’clock and her preparations for the day.\"},{\"question\":\"What event does Molly look forward to in this opening chapter?\",\"answer\":\"Molly anticipates her first share in a kind of annual festival in Hollingford, making the day feel unusually important to her.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the chapter describe the social structure around Hollingford?\",\"answer\":\"It contrasts everyday town life with the nearby influence of the Cumnor family and notes how landowners affected neighbors’ lives and choices in that pre-railway period.\"}]","Wives and Daughters - Chapter 1 - The Dawn of a Gala Day | PDF",986,{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":98},[99,102,106,110,115,120,124,129,134,137,141],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":100,"slug":101},90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":103,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":105},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":107,"show_sort_weight":108,"slug":109},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":111,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":112,"show_sort_weight":113,"slug":114},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":116,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":117,"show_sort_weight":118,"slug":119},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":55,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":121,"show_sort_weight":122,"slug":123},"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":125,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":126,"show_sort_weight":127,"slug":128},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":130,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":131,"show_sort_weight":132,"slug":133},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":132,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":135,"show_sort_weight":132,"slug":136},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":138,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":139,"show_sort_weight":138,"slug":140},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":142,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":143,"show_sort_weight":111,"slug":144},19,"General","general"]