ELIZABETH GASKELL BIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Cleghorn
Gaskell (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British
novelist.
She was born Elizabeth
Stevenson in London in 1810. Her mother Eliza, the niece of the potter Josiah
Wedgwood, died when she was a child. Much of her childhood was spent in
Cheshire, where she lived with an aunt at Knutsford, a town she would later
immortalise as Cranford. She also spent some time in Edinburgh. Her stepmother
was a sister of the Scottish miniature artist, W. J. Thomson, who painted a
famous portrait of Elizabeth in
Mrs Gaskell's first
novel, Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her
remaining novels are Cranford (1853), North and South (1855), and Wives and
Daughters (1865). She was a friend of Charles Dickens, and wrote a biography of
Charlotte Brontë.
Mrs Gaskell today ranks
as one of the most highly-regarded British novelists of the Victorian era.
Elizabeth Gaskell Biography
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