Not Only, But ALSo
22 November 2022
For many years now, the Gaskell Society has been a member of the Alliance of Literary Societies (ALS). Please find a link to their Autumn 2022 newsletter in which there’s
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 –
Wives and Daughters quotes V
15 November 2022
We now visit Chapters 40-50 in our continuing series of quotes from Wives and Daughters, compiled by Dr Diane Duffy. These chapters will be covered in her March 2023 meeting
“No reader should be afraid of Elizabeth Gaskell”
4 November 2022
Last week, Society members were surprised and a bit disturbed to read in three national newspapers that Warwick University English Department had decided to put ‘trigger warnings’ on Mary Barton.
Wives and Daughters quotes IV
2 November 2022
We now visit Chapters 31-40 in our continuing our series of quotes from Wives and Daughters, compiled by Dr Diane Duffy. These chapters will be covered in her February 2023
Wives and Daughters quotes III
2 November 2022
We now visit Chapters 21-30 in our continuing our series of quotes from Wives and Daughters, compiled by Dr Diane Duffy. These chapters will be covered in her January 2023
Wives and Daughters quotes II
2 November 2022
Continuing our series of quotes from Wives and Daughters, compiled by Dr Diane Duffy, we now have chapters 11-20, covered in her November meeting. You can read her discussion Points to
Wives and Daughters quotes I
24 October 2022
To complement our Knutsford meetings, Dr Diane Duffy has compiled quotes from this season’s featured novel, Wives and Daughters. Her October meeting covers chapters 1-10, so here’s her selection from those chapters.
What’s the Craic with… Elizabeth Gaskell?
13 October 2022
In October 2022, our Chair, Libby Tempest (pictured), talked to journalist Danny Moran about just why she loves Elizabeth Gaskell so much. This is a longer version of the interview,
A Visit to the Parsonage
11 August 2022
Dr Diane Duffy heads across the Pennines to visit a very special library. On 15th July 2022 I visited the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth. The visit had been planned back