Gaskell

[ gas-kuhl ]
/ ˈgæs kəl /

noun

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

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Gaskell
/ (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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