Gaskell, Mrs., née Stevenson, novelist and biographer, born at Cheyne Row, Chelsea; authoress of “Mary Barton,” “Ruth,” “Silvia's Lovers,” &c., and the “Life of Charlotte Brontë,” her friend (1810‒1865).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Gascony * Gassendi, Pierre