English novelist Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson was better known by what name?
William Stevenson (Scottish writer) He also contributed to the "Edinburgh Encyclopædia", wrote the life of William Caxton and other treatises for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, besides writing articles for the "Edinburgh Review", the "Retrospective Review", and other magazines, and compiling most of the "Annual Register" for several years. Stevenson was twice married. By his first wife, Eliza Holland of Sandlebridge in Cheshire, he had two children, a son John and a daughter Elizabeth Cleghorn, who married William Gaskell, and became well known as the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. Her middle name Cleghorn has often been traced to James Cleghorn; Chapple argues
Elizabeth Gaskell rest she left out, deciding that certain, more salacious aspects were better kept hidden. Among Gaskell's best known novels are "Cranford" (1851–53), "North and South" (1854–55), and "Wives and Daughters" (1865). Gaskell was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on 29 September 1810 in Lindsey Row, Chelsea, London, at the house that is now 93 Cheyne Walk. She was the youngest of eight children; only she and her brother John survived infancy. Her father, William Stevenson, a Unitarian from Berwick-upon-Tweed, was minister at Failsworth, Lancashire, but resigned his orders on conscientious grounds; he moved to London in 1806 with the intention of