Classics Corner

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell or simply known as Mrs. Gaskell was born on the 29th of September in 1810 in Chelsea. She was a British novelist and short story writer belonging to the Victorian Era. Her novel's highlight the social classes of society including the needy and therefore make them of great interest to social historians and litterateurs.

Mrs. Gaskell was the first to write a biography of Charlotte Bronte that was published in the mid 1800s. Mrs. Gaskell published her first novel anonymously, Mary Barton, in1848. She was best-known for her remaining novels such as, Cranford (1853), North and South (1854), and Wives and Daughters (1865). She gained popularity for writing ghost stories that were published in the magazine, Household owned by Charles Dickens. Her ghost stories are quite the contrast to her industrial fictional work and can be found in "Gothic" vein.