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Elizabeth Gaskell Premium Collection: 10 Novels & 40+ Short Stories
Including Poems, Essays & Biographies (Illustrated Edition)
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2018 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-4131-6
Table of Contents
Cousin Phillis and Other Tales
The Grey Woman and Other Tales
The Old Nurse's Story and Other Tales
The Last Generation in England
Traits and Stories of The Hugenots
Mrs. Gaskell and Knutsford by George A. Payne
Introduction
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN (1810–1865), English novelist and biographer, was born on the 29th of September 1810 in Lindsay Row, Chelsea, London, since destroyed to make way for Cheyne Walk. Her father, William Stevenson (1772–1829), came from Berwick-on-Tweed, and had been successively Unitarian minister, farmer, boarding-house keeper for students at Edinburgh, editor of the Scots Magazine, and contributor to the Edinburgh Review, before he received the post of Keeper of the Records to the Treasury, which he held until his death. His first wife, Elizabeth Holland, was Mrs Gaskell's mother. She was a Holland of Sandiebridge, Knutsford, Cheshire, in which county the family name had long been and is still of great account. Mrs Stevenson died a month after her daughter was born, and the babe was carried into Cheshire to Knutsford to be adopted by her aunt, Mrs Lumb.
