Elizabeth Gaskell was born in London in 1810 but spent most of her
life in Cheshire, Stratford-upon-Avon. She married the Reverend
William Gaskell and had four daughters by him. She worked among the
poor, travelled frequently and wrote for Dickens'smagazine,
Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell was friends with Charlotte
Bronte and consequently went on to write her biography.
Pam Norris is Reader in Literature at Liverpool John Mooores
University
"No nineteenth-century novel contains a more devastating rejection
than this of the Victorian male assumption of moral authority."
Pam Morris
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