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Elizabeth Stevenson was born in London on 29 September 1810
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Elizabeth Stevenson married William Gaskell on 1st January 1832.
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As well as four daughters, Elizabeth had a son, William, who died as a baby of scarlet fever. As a distraction from her grief, her husband suggested that she write a novel. It was out of this sorrow that her first novel Mary Barton (subtitled A Tale of Manchester Life) was born.
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In 1848 Elizabeth Gaskell published her first novel
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'North and South' was published.
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When Charlotte died, her father, Patrick Brontë, asked Gaskell to write her biography.
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Elizabeth Gaskell died on 12 November 1865.
