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"In short, I am ... open to any amount of literary gossip."

– Letter (412) to George Smith, February 1859 –

ALS Spring 2024 Newsletter

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

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Looking ahead to Conference 2024

It doesn’t seem like nearly two years since we gathered in Caernarvon for our Gaskell Society Conference; but here we are in February 2024, finalising the details for yet another 

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Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

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

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Sylvia’s Lovers – an Introduction

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

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Sylvia’s Lovers – quotes V

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

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Sylvia’s Lovers – quotes IV

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

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