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Painted portrait, 1832William John Thomson · Public domain

Elizabeth Gaskell

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.

1810 AD – 1865 AD · 96 collected ↗