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Elizabeth Gaskell was a famous author who published many books in the 1850's and 1860's.

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson was born in September 29, 1810. She was the youngest of eight siblings but only her and her brother, John, had lived through childhood.
Her father, William Stevenson, was a minister at Failsworth Lancashire.
Her mother died just 13 months after having there last child.

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Elizabeth's father didn't know what to do with Elizabeth after her mother died so he sent her to go live with her mother's sister, Aunt Hannah Lumb. Elizabeth later described Hannah as "more than mother". Their house, then named "The Heath" but now "Heathwait House", still stands on a road, now called Gaskell Avenue. Her father, whom she had no contact with since the move, later re-married a woman named Catherine Thomson, who was a sister of the Scottish miniature artist, William John Thomson. He painted the famous portrait of Elizabeth in 1832.

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Elizabeth was at the age of 22 when married William Gaskell in 1832. He was the assistant minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel in Manchester. They stayed in the city and she helped him with his work, offering help to the poor and teaching in the Sunday School, where they taught reading, writing, and scripture. The early parts of their marriage , the Gaskells lived in Dover Street, in the Chorlton-on-Medlock district.

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Elizabeth and WIlliam had three daughters together named Marianne (1834), Margaret Emily (1837) and Florence (1842). The family moved to a larger house at 121 Upper Rumford Street, nearby. In 1845, Elizabeth's only son, William, died of scarlet fever at just 9 months old. Elizabeth had a few short stories published and her husband had suggested that she write a novel as a distraction from her sadness .

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Elizabeth was still working on her new book Wives and Daughters, a humorous coming-of-age novel, when she suddenly died of a heart attack while visiting a house she had bought in Holybourne, Hampshire

on November the 12th, 1865.

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The novel North and South was one of the book that Elizabeth created to take her mind off of the death of her only son.

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1. http://gaskellsociety.co.uk/elizabeth-gaskell/
2.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Cleghorn-Gaskell
3.
http://www.gradesaver.com/author/elizabeth-gaskell