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A Short Biography of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Author Name:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Born As:

Elizabeth Stevenson

Other Names:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Born:

29 Sep 1810

Died:

12 Nov 1865




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Selected Works:

Novels:

Mary Barton - 1848
Cranford - 1851-3
Ruth - 1853
North and South - 1854-5
Sylvia's Lovers - 1863
Cousin Phillis - 1864
Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story - 1865


Collections:

The Moorland Cottage - 1850
The Old Nurse's Story - 1852
Lizzie Leigh - 1855
My Lady Ludlow - 1859
Round the Sofa - 1859
Lois the Witch - 1861
A Dark Night's Work - 1863

Short stories - partial:

Libbie Marsh's Three Eras - 1847
Christmas Storms and Sunshine - 1848
The Squire's Story - 1853
Half a Life-time Ago - 1855
An Accursed Race - 1855
The Poor Clare - 1856
"The Manchester Marriage" - 1858, a chapter of A House to Let, co-written with Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Adelaide Anne Procter
The Half-brothers - 1859
The Grey Woman - 1861


Non-fiction:

The Life of Charlotte Brontë - 1857.                          
Mother Eliza Holland
Father William Stevenson, one of eight children.                          
1850 - The Moorland Cottage
1857 - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
1859 - Round the Sofa
1863 - Sylvia's Lovers