Manchester was a large, bustling city with a vibrant intellectual and cultural centre but was also an industrial hub. The newlywed couple moved to Manchester, where Gaskell helped her husband distribute food and clothes to the poor at his church. Her brother provided her with travel literature and stories of the sea.īy 1832, Elizabeth was the assistant minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel and married William Gaskell, also a Unitarian minister. Elizabeth was educated in the traditional disciplines for young women –the classics, arts, decorum and manners, and writing. Knutsford served as Gaskell's model for the small country town of Cranford in the eponymous novel and Hollingford in Wives and Daughters. After her mother's death in 1811, Gaskell lived with her aunt, Hannah Lumb, in Knutsford, Cheshire (on what is now called "Gaskell Avenue"). Her father would later leave the faith after experiencing doubts of conscience, and eventually pursuing such varied professions as farming, journalism, and civil service. She was born on September 29th, 1810 to William Stevenson, a Unitarian minister, and Elizabeth Stevenson. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed novelists of Victorian literature.
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