How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly. Elizabeth Gaskell

Happy Barely Belated Birthday 

The author of North and South was born yesterday in 1810.

From Wikipedia: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to simply asMrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature.^[1]