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Elizabeth Gaskell
Life dates: 1810 AD — 1865 AD
English novelist whose scenes place judgments and personal feeling alongside social responsibilities. A character’s argument is best understood with the situation that gives it force.
Life and writing
Elizabeth Gaskell lived from 1810 to 1865 and made her home with her family in Manchester. Her house museum documents that lifetime and the family setting. This profile connects the existing Elizabeth Gaskell archive label to checked biographical references and a complete novel, rather than creating a new author identity. The link gives useful context for reading supplied excerpts while preserving the collection’s uncertainty about the wider set of individual attributions.
Chapter XIV of the linked North and South gives Margaret a speech about resisting unjust power while her family discusses Frederick’s circumstances. Chapter XL describes Thornton’s conflicting feelings through the narrator. The two selected archive passages match those chapters under case, punctuation and spacing comparison. Their different voices matter: the moral argument belongs to a character in a particular discussion, and the description of jealousy is narration rather than a declaration of the novelist’s own feelings.
Reading this voice
Read chapters XIV and XL, identifying the speaker and what has happened before each passage. The two selected contributor records have checked locations in this Walter Scott edition; their original wording and uncertainty labels remain. The 96 associated records are not all authenticated by those comparisons. Profile lifetime years do not establish the composition date of an excerpt or resolve separate historical attribution questions.
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