Gaskell
[gas-kuh l] /ˈgæs kəl/
noun
1.
Mrs (Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell) 1810–65, English novelist.
/ˈɡæskəl/
noun
1.
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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