Gaskell Blog © Katherine C. Born into a Scottish family with a strong Naval background his Post-Captain father, Joseph Stevenson, dearly wanted a son in the church and decided his second child, William, would be the one. It must have been difficult growing up with his future already planned. Especially when he seems to have longed…
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Elizabeth Gaskell Biography: Birth, Childhood, & Education
Gaskell Blog © Katherine C. At Belle Vue House in Chelsea, London on the 29th of September 1810, Elizabeth Cleghorn was born into the Stevenson family. She was named after her mother and a friend of her father, James Cleghorn, who was a writer and farmer. She had a brother, John, who was older by…
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