Elizabeth Gaskell
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- proper noun
- Elizabeth Gaskell wrote several important novels highlighting the social issues of Victorian England.
Examples
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North and South is one of Elizabeth Gaskell's most celebrated works.
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Many scholars have praised Elizabeth Gaskell for her biography of Charlotte Brontë.
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The famous author Elizabeth Gaskell wrote several influential novels.
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Many readers appreciate Elizabeth Gaskell for her detailed character development.
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Elizabeth Gaskell is celebrated for her insightful portrayal of working-class life in her novels.
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The novel Elizabeth Gaskell wrote, Cranford, offers a glimpse into the lives of rural women.
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In her biography, Elizabeth Gaskell provides an intimate look at the life of Charlotte Brontë.
Synonyms
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An English writer from the 1800s who wrote novels and a biography of Charlotte Brontë
Surface Forms
Morphology
Elizabeth + Gaskell
This is a proper name: knowing the constituents 'Elizabeth' and 'Gaskell' only indicates a personal name, not the referential information that she was an English novelist and biographer. The biographical/professional meaning is not derivable from the parts, so a B1 learner who knows the words but not the name would not infer the full meaning.
Etymology
Elizabeth Gaskell belongs to an English writer who walked the streets of factory towns and used those scenes in stories about working people and family life called 'social novels'. She also wrote a well-known 'biography' of Charlotte Brontë, so today her name means an author famous for those social novels and that biography.