Their friendship continued after the Gaskells returned to Manchester and Norton to Boston, and lasted until Elizabeth’s death in 1865. He brought Elizabeth flowers nearly every day. He was charming and brilliant he took them sightseeing and taught them about painting and sculpture. Almost immediately, he became close to the three Gaskell women and, though he was far nearer to the daughters in age, to the mother in particular. One member of this circle was Charles Eliot Norton, the American social critic and future Harvard professor of art. She brought her two eldest daughters, both in their early twenties, and the three of them were welcomed into the lively circle of British and American writers and artists staying in the city. Elizabeth Gaskell visited Rome for the first time in the spring of 1857.
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