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Mrs Elizabeth (Cleghorn Stevenson) Gaskell Elizabeth Gaskell was born 1810 and is one of the hidden treasures of victorian litterature. She married a minister, William Gaskell, and settled in Manchester. At the time the population of Manchester was mostly ill treated industrial workers. As a result of the misery surrounding her, she wrote Mary Barton in 1848 and published it anonymously. She was the pioneer in the industrial novel genre, side by side with her friend Charles Dickens. She died in 1865. Bibliography : Back |