Elizabeth gaskell life biography samples

English novelist, biographer, and short story writer (–)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (néeStevenson; 29 September – 12 November ), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.

Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in , was the first biography of Charlotte Brontë.

In this biography, she wrote only of the moral, sophisticated things in Brontë's life; the rest she omitted, deciding certain, more salacious aspects were better kept hidden. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (–), North and South (–), and Wives and Daughters (–), all of which were adapted for television by the BBC.

Early life

Mrs. Gaskell was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on 29 September in Lindsey Row, Chelsea, London, now 93 Cheyne Walk.^[1&#