BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Gaskell Society - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Gaskell Society X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Gaskell Society REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241015T235500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241015T235500 DTSTAMP:20260405T225721 CREATED:20241002T092653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T093644Z UID:6753-1729036500-1729036500@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:RECORDING - Moss and Mosses in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Worlds DESCRIPTION:RECORDING: Moss and Mosses in Elizabeth Gaskell's Worlds \n \n \n \n This year’s Joan Leach Memorial Lecture was given by Dr Ingrid Hanson. You can now watch a recording of the talk for a limited time.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In Mary Barton\, Margaret’s grandfather Job Legh has been out ‘moss-hunting’\, Margaret tells Mary\, and the elderly Alice\, reminiscing about her countryside youth\, says to the girls: ‘Eh\, lasses! ye don’t know what rocks are in Manchester! Gray pieces o’ stone as large as a house\, all covered over wi’ moss of different colours\, some yellow\, some brown’.   The poetic extract from Ebenezer Elliott that prefaces Chapter Five further suggests the variety of both kind and quality in mosses:  ‘Nor wild-flower decked the rock\, nor moss the well\,But he its name and qualities could tell.’ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chat Moss\, Moss Brow\, moss to keep a bouquet of flowers fresh\, moss as decoration\, moss marking graves: all these and more appear in Gaskell’s work\, even as water-retaining moss bogs were being drained for building or farming in Manchester\, and working-class botanists like Job Legh were finding\, naming and discussing their local mosses.  Just a little later\, from the 1860s onwards\, Manchester Museum began to receive and catalogue mosses from across the country and the world\, as part of its extensive herbarium. In this talk Ingrid Hanson discusses the role of mosses – of which there are around 1\,000 varieties (some yellow\, some brown\, some green\, some red) in Britain today – in Gaskell’s Manchester and Gaskell’s work\, tracing out some of the histories of the mossy names\, places and characteristics that would have been familiar to Gaskell and her characters and that are so vital to our climate-changed world today. Dr Ingrid Hanson is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Manchester\, author of William Morris and the Uses of Violence (2014) and editor of William Morris: Selected Works (OUP 2024). She has published work on literature of violence\, peace (including in relation to Gaskell)\, mourning\, masculinities\, socialism and utopia\, and is currently working on a book about peace and protest as well as an interdisciplinary\, collaborative project on the politics\, aesthetics and histories of urban moss. She has a passion for moss and lichen and has recently discovered the joys of a hand lens. Picture: Bob Blaylock\, CC BY-SA 4.0 \, via Wikimedia Commons A recording of this talk is now available. Use the link below to book your place. Sales close on 15 October 2024 and you can access the talk until 11.59pm on 21 October 2024.   URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/recording-moss-and-mosses-in-elizabeth-gaskells-worlds/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Online,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR