Having remarked before marrying that she would need to learn obedience,
qtd. in
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
77
EG
refused to be known as Mrs William Gaskell: she signed herself throughout her life as Elizabeth Gaskell
.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
77
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