Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (1810-1865), was a renowned English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. As a writer, Gaskell's narratives often wove the social and political fabrics of her time, skillfully revealing the dichotomies between rural and urban life, the poor and the affluent. Her literary repertoire is an eclectic blend of realism and romanticism, always...