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She never called her son by any name but John 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1810
Born: September 29
Died: 1865
Died: January 12
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London
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Author of Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson
Mrs. Gaskell
née Stevenson
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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
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Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself.
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