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Gaskell

American  
[gas-kuhl] / ˈgæs kəl /

noun

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


Gaskell British  
/ ˈɡæskəl /

noun

  1. 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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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

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

I do know that I’ve long lived inside the books of Trollope, Dickens, Austen, Gaskell.

From Los Angeles Times

Speaking ahead of the inquiry, Ms Gaskell said she hoped it would mean "anybody else that has to go through the mental health system will not be let down".

From BBC

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

From Science Daily