ALS Spring 2024 Newsletter

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If you’re a member of the Gaskell Society, you’re affiliated to the Alliance of Literary Societies. Here’s their 2023 Autumn Newsletter, which we hope you’ll enjoy reading.  Contents The 2024 ALS Annual Gathering at Bowness-on-Windermere, hosted by the Arthur Ransome … Continued

Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

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Joan Leach Memorial Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024 Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2024 The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published … Continued

Sylvia’s Lovers – an Introduction

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Our subject of our 2023-24 season of Knutsford discussions is Sylvia’s Lovers. Dr Diane Duffy offers an introduction to Gaskell’s only historical novel. Sylvia’s Lovers (1863) was Elizabeth’s first novel to be published initially by Smith and Elder. George Smith … Continued

Sylvia’s Lovers – quotes V

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To mark our new season of Knutsford discussions on Sylvia’s Lovers, Dr Diane Duffy has compiled a series of quotes from Chapters 30-37. These chapters will be covered in her March 2024 session.  Follow the Gaskell Society on Twitter and … Continued

Sylvia’s Lovers – quotes IV

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To mark our new season of Knutsford discussions on Sylvia’s Lovers, Dr Diane Duffy has compiled a series of quotes from Chapters 24-29. These chapters will be covered in her February 2024 session.  Follow the Gaskell Society on Twitter and … Continued

Sylvia’s Lovers – quotes III

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To mark our new season of Knutsford discussions on Sylvia’s Lovers, Dr Diane Duffy has compiled a series of quotes from Chapters 16-23. These chapters will be covered in her January 2024 session.  Follow the Gaskell Society on Twitter and … Continued