6/10/2023 0 Comments Elizabeth novelist cranford![]() ![]() However, Gaskell’s association with the capital was short-lived. Over the years, this famous Chelsea address has also been home to number of other famous Britons, including authors George Eliot and Henry James and Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Throughout her career, the author proved equally unconventional, exploring contentious issues in society in her writing, while her pioneering and allegedly libellous 1857 The Life of Brontë is now considered to be one of the greatest English biographies.īorn in London to former Unitarian minister William Stevenson and farmer’s daughter Elizabeth (née Holland) on September 29 1810, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell started life in what is now Cheyne Walk, a London street steeped in cultural history. ![]() ![]() ‘Mrs Gaskell’ – as contemporary readers knew her – was unusual among 19th-century female writers, balancing her career with an active family life with her husband and four surviving daughters. In recent years, thanks to the hit BBC adaptation of Cranford, her work is enjoying renewed popularity Yet she remained overlooked for many years. Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell counted Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë among her supporters. ![]()
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