Mrs. Gaskell, again

Oh! I will so try & write you a good novel, as good as a great nosegay of honeysuckle, just under my nose at present, which smells not only of honeysuckle, but of very good cake into the bargain.

Elizabeth Gaskell to her publisher (1859), quoted in
 Elizabeth Gaskell:  A Habit of Stories, by Jenny Uglow 

{Carl Vilhelm Holsoe, Woman in the Interior, found here}

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