Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very… - Elizabeth Gaskell

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Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (September 29 1810 – November 12 1865) was a British fiction-writer and biographer who witnessed and recorded the transformation of northern England by the Industrial Revolution. She was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson; her married name is often given in the form Mrs. Gaskell.

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Pen Names: Cotton Mather Mills

Alternative Names: Mrs. Gaskell, née Stevenson • Mrs. Gaskell • Elizabeth (Cleghorn) Gaskell • Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell • Cotton Mather Mills, Esq.

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