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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Elizabeth Gaskell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1810
Born: September 29
Died: 1865
Died: January 12
Biographer
Novelist
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London
England
Author of Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson
Mrs. Gaskell
née Stevenson
Girl
May
Plainness
Wells
Sixteen
Well
Concerning
Ignorant
Trust
Pretty
Knowing

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