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Half a lifetime ago, there lived in one of the Westmoreland dales a single woman, of the name of Susan Dixon.She was owner of the small farm-house where she resided, and of some thirty or forty acres of land by which it was surrounded.She had also an hereditary right to a sheep-walk, extending to the wild fells that overhang Blea Tarn.In the language of the country she was a Stateswoman.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
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