Elizabeth Gaskell
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- | {{Template}} | + | {{Template}}'''Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell''' (née Stevenson; [[29 September]] [[1810]] – [[12 November]] [[1865]]), often referred to simply as '''Mrs. Gaskell''', was an [[England|English]] [[novelist]] and short story writer during the [[Victorian era]]. She is perhaps best known for her biography of [[Charlotte Brontë]]. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to [[social history|social historians]] as well as lovers of literature. |
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+ | [[Elizabeth Gaskell|Gaskell's]] tales "[[The Doom of the Griffiths]]" (1858) "[[Lois the Witch]]" and "[[The Grey Woman]]" all employ one of the most common themes of [[Gothic fiction]], the power of ancestral sins to curse future generations, or the fear that they will. | ||
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Gaskell's tales "The Doom of the Griffiths" (1858) "Lois the Witch" and "The Grey Woman" all employ one of the most common themes of Gothic fiction, the power of ancestral sins to curse future generations, or the fear that they will.
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