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Gaskell's mother died before she was one month old, and she was raised partly by an aunt, but her childhood was spent in a succession of families rather than with her father.  
 
Gaskell's mother died before she was one month old, and she was raised partly by an aunt, but her childhood was spent in a succession of families rather than with her father.  
  

Revision as of 20:23, 25 March 2014

Portrait of Elizabeth Gaskell by George Richmond (1851)
Source: Wikipedia.org.

Biography

1810-1865

Gaskell's mother died before she was one month old, and she was raised partly by an aunt, but her childhood was spent in a succession of families rather than with her father.

She was a friend and biographer of Charlotte Brontë and is reckoned one of the best English novelists of the nineteenth century.

References

Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, 1993-97 Dictionary of National Biography Matsuoka, Mitsuharo. "The Gaskell Web." [Includes portraits]. Available at: [1]