Gaskell, Elizabeth (Cleghorn)

Gaskell, Elizabeth (Cleghorn)
orig. Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson known as Mrs. Gaskell

born Sept. 29, 1810, Chelsea, London, Eng.
died Nov. 12, 1865, near Alton, Hampshire

British writer.

The daughter of a Unitarian minister, Gaskell also married a Unitarian minister and began writing in middle age. Cranford (1853), her most popular novel, and the unfinished Wives and Daughters (1864–66), perhaps her best, are about the lives of country villagers. Mary Barton (1848), Ruth (1853), and North and South (1855) examine social problems of the urban working class. In 1857 she wrote the first biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë (see Brontë sisters).

Elizabeth Gaskell, chalk drawing by George Richmond, 1851; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery, London

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  • Gaskell,Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson — Gas·kell (găsʹkəl), Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson. 1810 1865. British writer noted for her Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) and her novels depicting the oppression of workers in 19th century England. * * * …   Universalium

  • Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn — ▪ English writer née  Stevenson  born Sept. 29, 1810, Chelsea, London, Eng. died Nov. 12, 1865, near Alton, Hampshire  English novelist, short story writer, and first biographer of Charlotte Brontë.       She was a daughter of a Unitarian… …   Universalium

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