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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was an English novelist and biographer, known to her first readers as Mrs Gaskell. Brought up by an aunt in the Cheshire town of Knutsford, she married William Gaskell, a Unitarian minister, and spent her married life in Manchester, the industrial city that gave her first novel, Mary Barton (1848), its subject. Charles Dickens published much of her work in his magazine Household Words, including Cranford and North and South. A friend of Charlotte Brontë, she wrote the first biography of her, The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857). She died in 1865 with her last novel, Wives and Daughters, all but finished.
