The Gaskell Society

Wives and Daughters quotes III

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

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

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. […]

The Gaskell Memorial Service

Every year, on a Sunday, close to what would have been Elizabeth Gaskell’s birthday, Gaskell Society members assemble at Brook Street Chapel in Knutsford. We lay flowers on Elizabeth’s grave […]

A busy society!

We held our Annual General Meeting (over Zoom) in late September 2020 and heard a number of reports about the Society’s activities in 2019. We thought it might be nice […]

Gaskell Service 2019

Every year, on a Sunday close to what would have been Elizabeth Gaskell’s birthday, we head to Brook Street Chapel in Knutsford to lay flowers on the Gaskell family grave […]