What was the nationality of the novelist for whom the Gaskell Memorial Tower and King's Coffee House is a memoral?
Elizabeth Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, ("née" Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Her first novel, "Mary Barton", was published in 1848. Gaskell's "The Life of Charlotte Brontë", published in 1857, was the first biography of Brontë. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are "Cranford" (1851–53), "North and South" (1854–55), and "Wives and Daughters" (1865).
Robert Keable Robert Keable (6 March 1887 – 22 December 1927) was a British novelist, formerly a missionary and priest in the Church of England. He resigned his ministry following his experiences in the First World War and caused a scandal with his 1921 novel "Simon Called Peter", the tale of a priest's wartime affair with a young nurse. The book sold 600,000 copies in the 1920s alone, was referenced in "The Great Gatsby", and was cited in a double murder investigation. Fêted in the United States, but critically less than well-received, Keable moved to Tahiti where he continued to write, producing both novels and theological works, until his death at age 40 of a kidney complaint.