Elizabeth gaskell brief biography of alberta
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Elizabeth Gaskell
- Born: London, 29 September 1810
- Died: Holybourne, Hampshire, 12 November 1865
- Wrote 11 novels, including North and South, Mary Barton, and Wives and Daughters
- Children: one son and four daughters
Gaskell was born in London in 1810 to a Unitarian minister.
Raised in Knutsford by an aunt, she married William Gaskell (also a minister in the Unitarian church) in 1832 and settled in Manchester for a life of motherhood and church obligations.
Elizabeth gaskell brief biography of alberta
However, all that changed when her only son died. As a Unitarian, she believed in education for all, and she found herself identifying with the poor and wanted desperately to express their hardships. So she began to write.
Her first novel, Mary Barton, told the story of a working class family in which the father lapses into bitter class hatred and carries out a murder for his trade union.
Cotton Famine Soup Kitchen, 1862
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