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    • Elizabeth Gaskell

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    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (nee Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor.

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    About the Elizabeth Gaskell

    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (nee Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Bronte, published in 1857, was the first biography of Charlotte Bronte. In this biography, she wrote only of the moral, sophisticated things in Bronte’s life; the rest she omitted, deciding certain, more salacious aspects were better kept hidden. Among Gaskell’s best known novels are Cranford (1851-1853), North and South (1854-1855), and Wives and Daughters (1864-1866), all of which were adapted for television by the BBC.

    10 Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

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      A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

      Elizabeth Gaskell

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      A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

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      Madam your wife and I didn’t hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won’t say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn’t me.

      Elizabeth Gaskell

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      To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

      Elizabeth Gaskell

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      Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

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      How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

      Elizabeth Gaskell

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      The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

      Elizabeth Gaskell

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      My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

      Elizabeth Gaskell

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      People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

      Elizabeth Gaskell

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      I’ll not listen to reason… reason always means what someone else has got to say.

      Elizabeth Gaskell

      British author