Surname: Gaskell Forename(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn b. 29 September 1810. d. 12 November 1865. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Major novelist, short story writer, and poet. Née Stevenson. Born in London. Educated
at home by her aunts and tutors, then at several boarding schools. Married Unitarian
minister William Gaskell on 30 August 1832 and moved to Manchester. Contributed to
periodicals including Sunday School Penny Magazine, Sartain’s Literary Magazine, Household Words, Ladies Companion, Cornhill Magazine, and Pall Mall Gazette. Novels include Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855). First biographer of Charlotte Brontë. Biographical information: ODNB. (AC, CC)