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Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson) was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer born on 29 September 1810 in Chelsea, London, and raised by her aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire, after her mother's early death. She married Unitarian minister William Gaskell in 1832 and lived in Manchester, where she wrote social novels like Mary Barton (1848) depicting Victorian industrial life and the working classes, as well as the influential biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857). Her notable works include Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters, blending social critique with character-driven narratives.[1][4][5]

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