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Elizabeth Gaskell’s father was William Stevenson, a Unitarian minister, and Elizabeth was brought up by an aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire. Later several of her novels were to be referred to as the ‘Knutsford novels’.
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Martin, B. (1989). Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. In: Martin, B. (eds) The Nineteenth Century (1798–1900). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20159-4_31
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