LOADING ERROR LOADINGLast year, fellow Jane Austen fans had a bumper harvest of new shows and audiobooks as part of the 250th anniversary of her birth. To me, that also means we’re long overdue for an Elizabeth Gaskell revival. She also wrote the world’s first controversial Brontë biography, The Life of Charlotte Brontë; she had been friends with the subject. The writer, born in 1810 (six years before Charlotte Brontë, eight years before Emily, and 10 years before Anne; she was seven when Jane Austen died) was a Victorian novelist. Her father, William Stevenson, was a journalist, and her mother, Elizabeth, died when she was just over one.

Source: Huffington Post March 07, 2026 10:30 UTC