Raise a glass to 2025!
11 November 2024
Our convivial New Year lunch takes place on Tuesday 14 January 2025. Join us! Helen Smith tells us about the 2024 lunch.
Gaskell Society News
"In short, I am ... open to any amount of literary gossip."
"In short, I am ... open to any amount of literary gossip."
– Letter (412) to George Smith, February 1859 –
An Ideal Woman and the Marriage Question
5 November 2024
Female behaviour and the choice of marriage partner are concerns for both Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot, writes Dr Diane Duffy.
Alan Shelston
25 September 2024
Alan Shelston (1937-2024) Gaskell Society members all over the world were greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Alan Shelston – not only one of the foremost Gaskell scholars
Visits and Records – a list for further reading
10 July 2024
Gaskell Society president Shirley Foster shares a reading list to accompany her 2024 Conference talk, ‘Visits and Records: nineteenth-century women travellers and their writings.
George Eliot’s Locations I – Chilvers Coton
5 July 2024
As we open our conference in Hinckley this year, I ask the question : ‘What is the importance of location in the works of Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot?’ This
George Eliot’s Locations II – Astley, Griff House and Hollows
5 July 2024
As we open our conference in Hinckley this year, I ask the question : ‘What is the importance of location in the works of Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot?’ For
New booklet out now
5 June 2024
Anthony Burton has written a new booklet that outlines just why Elizabeth Gaskell is the most versatile of storytellers. And it’s free to read!
Revolutionary Gaskell? A call for papers
4 June 2024
We’re thrilled that there’s to be an exciting new Gaskell Conference taking place in Paris in April 2025. Annick Rello-Pommier tells us more and issues a call for papers.
News from Knutsford
3 June 2024
Dr Diane Duffy shares news of her plans for our new season of study sessions for the 2024-2025 season.