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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was born on September 29, 1810 in Chelsea, London.
* She was the daughter of a Unitarian minister and his wife.
* After her mother died, she was raised by her aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire.
* In 1832, she married William Gaskell, a Unitarian minister.
* They had six children, four of whom survived to adulthood.
* Gaskell began writing short stories in the 1840s.
* Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848.
* She went on to write several more novels, including Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
* Gaskell died on November 12, 1865 at the age of 55.

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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

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Wisdom

Elizabeth Gaskell

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

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Education

Elizabeth Gaskell

Take care. If you do not speak – I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Send me away at once, if I must go; – Margaret! –

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Love

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Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

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Inspirational

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He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her – while he was jealous of her – while he renounced her – he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.