[
US
/ˈɡæskəɫ/
]
NOUN
- 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.