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Gaskell

American

[gas-kuhl] / ˈgæs kəl /

noun

Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell, 1810–65, English novelist.

Gaskell British

/ ˈɡæskəl /

noun

Mrs. married name of Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson. 1810–65, English novelist. Her novels include Mary Barton (1848), an account of industrial life in Manchester, and Cranford (1853), a social study of a country village

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It pushed her season score to 280 points to clinch the first slopestyle Crystal Globe of her career, by 69 points from Canada's Elena Gaskell.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

David Gaskell: Became Manchester United's youngest ever debutant - aged 16 years and 19 days - against Manchester City at Maine Road in 1956.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

Elizabeth Gaskell called the biography she wrote about her friend Charlotte Brontë—which helped cement the novelist’s literary fame—an “unlucky book.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

"The catch phrase is always 'physics beyond the Standard Model,'" Gaskell said.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024

She read the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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