Gaskell

[ gas-kuhl ]

noun
  1. Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell, 1810–65, English novelist.

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How to use Gaskell in a sentence

  • "That's right, dear," she murmured, and Mrs. Gaskell-Walker looked a little ashamed of herself.

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  • Hermione and her husband could not come, as they were obliged to dine with relations of the Gaskell-Walkers.

    Happy House | Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg
  • He fancied she might be a great historian, so he told Mrs. Gaskell.

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  • There does not appear to have been any form of prayer for the dead prior to the issue of Gaskell's "Prymer" in 1400.

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  • Mrs. Gaskell seems to me to be constantly misled by a love of sharp contrasts—of "dramatic" effects.

British Dictionary definitions for Gaskell

Gaskell

/ (ˈɡæskəl) /


noun
  1. Mrs. married name of Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson. 1810–65, English novelist. Her novels include Mary Barton (1848), an account of industrial life in Manchester, and Cranford (1853), a social study of a country village

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