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English novelist, short-story writer, and the first biographer of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, died #OTD in 1865. Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her remaining novels are Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters. via @wikipedia

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Elizabeth Gaskell became popular for her writing, especially her ghost stories, aided by Charles Dickens, who published her work in his magazine Household Words.

She was an established novelist when Patrick Brontë invited her to write a biography of his daughter, though she worried, as a writer of fiction, that it would be "a difficult thing" to "be accurate and keep to the facts."

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