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Gaskell

[ US /ˈɡæskəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. English writer who is remembered for her biography of Charlotte Bronte (1810-1865)

How To Use Gaskell In A Sentence

  • May Gaskell was the adored last muse of the artist Edward Burne-Jones.
  • Elizabeth Gaskell's novel 'Ruth' will hereafter be cited within the text as EG.
  • Gaskell noted the portrait of her over the fireplace, commissioned by her publisher from the fashionable artist George Richmond.
  • Elizabeth Gaskell was brought up by her aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire (the original of ‘Cranford’ and of ‘Hollingford’ in Wives and Daughters).
  • Gaskell also plays with that most formalized of 19 th - century relationships – that of servant and mistress.
  • Elizabeth Gaskell's novel 'Ruth' will hereafter be cited within the text as EG.
  • It would seem that Mrs Gaskell began A Dark Night's Work with a vivid donnée - the preparatory excavations for the railways churning up the beautiful English landscape, and discovering a murdered body.
  • A traditionalist who believed a woman's place was in the home, Gaskell sought not to celebrate their work, but to ‘exonerate and iconise the authors’.
  • Gaskell noted the portrait of her over the fireplace, commissioned by her publisher from the fashionable artist George Richmond.
  • Dickens and Gaskell were writing about big issues set in the dawning of the industrial age.
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