Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson

Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson (1810-1865), an English novelist. She was born at Chelsea, but was brought up by an aunt at Knutsford in Cheshire. She married Mr. Gaskell, a Unitarian clergyman, in 1832. Her first story, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Among her other novels are Ruth, The Moorland Cottage, Cranford, Sylvia's Lovers, Cousin Phillis. See Cranford