ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL (STEVENSON)
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Definitions of ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL (STEVENSON)
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An English novelist; born in Chelsea, Sept. 29, 1810; died Nov. 12, 1865. She had been long a wife and mother before she turned her attention to story-writing, which she did for the sake of forgetting a domestic grief. "Mary Barton", a book of the class to which Dickens's "Hard Times" belongs; "Sylvia's Lovers", a revelation of the old press-gang's doings; "Cousin Phillis", a story of humor and pathos in tasteful alternation; and "Cranford", a series of sketches,- the last-named a seemingly enduring classic,-are her best. Her "Life of Charlotte Bronte" brought her under criticism, but as a writer she belongs to a rank by no means crowded.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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