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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ( née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (born September 29, 1810, Chelsea, London, England—died November 12, 1865, near Alton, Hampshire) was an English novelist, short-story writer, and the first biographer of Charlotte Brontë. She was a daughter of a Unitarian minister.
Sep 5, 2018 · In 1897, an anthology of essays celebrating “women novelists of Queen Victoria’s reign” declared Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot to be “pre-eminent,” possessing a ...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-65) was born on 29 September 1810 in Lindsey Row, Chelsea, at the house which is now 93 Cheyne Walk. She was the daughter of William Stevenson – a treasury official and journalist – and his wife Elizabeth Stevenson (née Holland).
Read a brief biography about the life of Elizabeth Gaskell the novelist who's works include 'Cranford' and 'North and South'. Discover why she was asked to write the biography of Charlotte...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era.
Apr 24, 2012 · In her own lifetime, Elizabeth Gaskell (b. 1810–d. 1865) was an eminent and sometimes controversial writer. Her literary stature at the start of the 21st century is at least as high: she is known as a formally versatile canonical novelist, a vivacious correspondent, a delicate miniaturist as a teller of short stories, and the author of a ...
Elizabeth Gaskell, a 19th century English author, completed a plethora of short stories as well as novels and was a friend and contemporary of many other famous writers including Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Oct 3, 2014 · The Manchester home of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell opens to the public on Sunday after a £2.5m restoration. The 19th Century novelist wrote Cranford, North and South, and Wives and...
Gaskell's early fame as a social novelist began with the 1848 publication of Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life, in which she pricked the conscience of industrial England through her depiction and analysis of the working classes.
