Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

• Birth : 26th September 1810 — Death : 12th November 1865

• Number of Books : 1

Biography : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson) was often referred to as Mrs. Gaskell is the author of the famous book “North and South” (1854-55), Cranford (1851–53), and Wives and Daughters (1865). All of these have been adopted to television bu BBC. She was also a biographer and short story writer. Her stories often showed many levels of the Victorian era. She had a natural love for social history and literature. In 1848 her first novel was published called Mary Barton. She wrote the first biography of Bronte, “The Life of Charlotte Brontë,”, published in 1857. She was bor5n to parents William Stevenson, a Unitarian and mother Elizabeth Holland who came from an established family. She was a person of beauty, gentleness, well-groomed and grace, she raveled in rural life, Cheshire. She married a Unitarian minister, William Gaskell, in Knutsford On 30 August 1832. When settled in Manchester, its industrial surroundings influenced Elizabeth's writing in the industrial genre.