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Gaskell

[gas-kuhl]

noun

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



Gaskell

/ 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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Elizabeth Gaskell called the biography she wrote about her friend Charlotte Brontë—which helped cement the novelist’s literary fame—an “unlucky book.”

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

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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".

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

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Marsh, of Gaskell Street was also disqualified from driving for 18 years after he pleaded guilty on the second day of a trial.

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