![]() ![]() ![]() Gaskell died on 12 November 1865, leaving her longest work, 'Wives and Daughters' incomplete. The 'Life of Charlotte Brontë' (1857) was written with admiration and covered a huge quantity of firsthand material with great narrative skill. When Charlotte died in 1855, her father, Patrick Brontë, asked Gaskell to write her biography. Gaskell's work brought her many friends, including the novelist Charlotte Brontë. 'North and South' was published the following year. It was an immediate success, winning the praise of Charles Dickens and Thomas Carlyle.ĭickens invited her to contribute to his magazine, 'Household Words', where her next major work, 'Cranford', appeared in 1853. ![]() However, the death of her only son inspired her to write her first novel, 'Mary Barton', which was published anonymously in 1848. Motherhood and the obligations of a minister's wife kept her busy. She died soon afterwards and was buried on 17th November in the cemetery of Brook Street Chapel. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, also a Unitarian minister, and they settled in the industrial city of Manchester. Elizabeth Gaskell collapsed suddenly with a massive heart attack at her new home in Holybourne, near Alton in Hampshire, on 12th October, 1865. After her mother's early death, she was raised by an aunt who lived in Knutsford in Cheshire. © Gaskell was a Victorian novelist, also notable for her biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë.Įlizabeth Stevenson was born in London on 29 September 1810, the daughter of a Unitarian minister. ![]()
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