Person    | Female  Born 29/9/1810  Died 12/11/1865

Mrs Gaskell

Categories: Literature

Novelist and short story writer. Born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson,Chelsea. Most of her childhood was spent with her aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire, the town upon which she based Cranford in the novel. Her other best known works are ‘Mary Barton’ and ‘North and South’. Died The Lawn, Holybourne, Near Alton, Hampshire.

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