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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
1810–1865
A keen observer of Victorian life, this English novelist brought factory towns, family tensions, and moral dilemmas vividly onto the page. She is also remembered for writing the first full biography of Charlotte Brontë.
29 Audiobooks
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cranford
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
My Lady Ludlow
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mary Barton
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cousin Phillis
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Poor Clare
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Wives and Daughters
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Ruth
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cranford
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Half-Brothers
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
An Accursed Race
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Round the Sofa
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Doom of the Griffiths
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
A Dark Night's Work
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Grey Woman and other Tales
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Curious, if True Strange Tales
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
A House to Let
by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter
The Moorland Cottage
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Half a Life-Time Ago
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mrs. Gaskell
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Lizzie Leigh
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Round the Sofa; vol. 1
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Round the Sofa; vol. 2
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
About the author
Born in London in 1810, she spent much of her youth in Knutsford, a Cheshire town that later inspired the setting of Cranford. After marrying the Unitarian minister William Gaskell, she lived in Manchester, where the city’s sharp contrasts between wealth and poverty deeply shaped her fiction.
Her novels and stories, including Mary Barton, North and South, Ruth, and Cranford, are known for their humane attention to ordinary lives and for the way they explore class, industry, and social change in 19th-century Britain. Alongside her fiction, she became the first biographer of Charlotte Brontë, combining personal knowledge with literary insight.
Her work remains widely read because it is both socially observant and warmly human, balancing serious questions about injustice with memorable characters and moments of wit.