Elizabeth Gaskell

ABOUT ELIZABETH GASKELL

Victorian novelist known for such socially-themed works as Mary Barton, Cranford, and Sylvia's Lovers. She also published an 1857 biography of author Charlotte Bronte .

Born in the Chelsea neighborhood of London to a Unitarian minister father, she attended school in Stratford-upon-Avon.

She wrote The Life of Charlotte Bronte, a biography about author Charlotte Bronte.

In 1832, she married William Gaskell, with whom she subsequently had five children.

Her popular ghost stories were published in Household Words, a literary magazine published by author Charles Dickens .