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Elizabeth Gaskell

Died in 1865

Elizabeth Gaskell was born in 1810, was brought up by an aunt in Knutsford, in Cheshire, and married a Unitarian minister of Manchester. She published her first novel without the author's name. She wrote the biography of Charlotte Brontë, her friend, which brought her threats of legal action, had to be withdrawn and reappeared expurgated. She died of a heart attack in 1865, aged fifty-five, while taking tea with her daughters, in a house she had just bought in secret for her husband's retirement.

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