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Cranford (1851-53)

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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