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witty and wild and clever and droll, the pet of the house Julia Bradford Gaskell 1846-1908 Julia Bradford Gaskell was born in September 1846, the year after her brother William died and while the family was still living at 121, Upper Rumford Street. She was four when their new life began at 42 (now 84) Plymouth Grove. Elizabeth’s youngest daughter was named after Julia Emma Bradford, formerly Taylor, the wife of an American merchant who lived for a