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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Currently, United's youngest ever player is David Gaskell, a goalkeeper who made his debut when he was 16 years and 19 days.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

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 was again the lone woman before Jessie Gaskell and Leah Krinsky later came aboard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024

Jule bought two Victorian novels by writers she was not sure Immie had ever read: Gaskell and Hardy.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

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