English novelist, biographer and short story writer (born 1810).
"...industrial surroundings, workers' poverty, and social conflict
provided the context for the social realism in her writing, and also for
her dialect realism, which makes her an essential figure in any account
of the language of nineteenth-century literature....she was scrupulous
in her quest for accuracy in representing Lancashire speech. She
complained to her publisher of errors in the first edition [of _Mary
Barton_, 1848], made corrections, and gave glosses to dialect words and phrases, aided by her husband. The 5th edition (1854)added two lectures
on Lancashire dialect by William Gaskell, really detailed accounts of
its history and use, and full of literary precedents going back to
Anglo-Saxon times."
Lancashire words mentioned: farrantly (comely), frabbit (peeved), mither (bother), adverbial "right" (right welcome). Singular nouns after
numerals (two year), "nor" instead of "than" in comparatives, and
non-standard morphology (agone, childer); she even uses "gotten"!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell
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