Gaskell

[gas-kuh l]

noun

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

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Examples from the Web for gaskell

Mrs. Gaskell, writing in the life and for the eyes of Mr. Brontë, speaks of his unwearied care, his devotion in the night-nursing.
Emily Bront|A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson
Mrs. Gaskell quotes the passage with no consciousness of anything amiss.
Hearts of Controversy|Alice Meynell
Meanwhile the earl was addressing his son, whose hand was being bandaged by Gaskell.
The Lion's Skin|Rafael Sabatini
I was not surprised when Kennedy proposed, as the next move, to revisit the cellar in the apartment next to Gaskell's house.
The Social Gangster|Arthur B. Reeve

Mrs. Gaskell says, indeed, that their regular tasks were given by himself.
The Bront Family, Vol. 1 of 2|Francis A. Leyland

British Dictionary definitions for gaskell

Gaskell

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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