Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865)is one of the important realistic novelists in 19th history of English fiction, she used to have same reputation as Charlotte Bronte, and she was also regarded as the avant-courier of George Eliot.

• 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔（Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell）是19世纪英国文学史上不可忽略的一位现实主义女作家，曾与夏洛蒂·勃朗特齐名，并被看作是乔治·艾略特文学的重要先驱之一。