London & SE
Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens: A Relationship in Print
Francis Holland School 39 Graham Terrace, London, United KingdomWe are delighted to be able to let you know that - at long last - our London & South East branch meetings will start again on Saturday 7th May, when Marie Moxon will be speaking on how Gaskell’s relationship with Dickens changed the course of her writing The meeting will take place at Francis […]
Scumbling: Gaskell’s Turneresque Aesthetics
Francis Holland School 39 Graham Terrace, London, United KingdomWe welcome back Annick Pommier, who is continuing her PhD research at Université Paris Cité and who will talk about the impact of John Ruskin and J.M.W. Turner on Gaskell’s writing. Gaskell’s dear American friend, Charles Eliot Norton, remembered a conversation with Gaskell and her daughters about the contemporary book they would choose if they […]
Letters and Elizabeth Gaskell
Francis Holland School 39 Graham Terrace, London, United KingdomCarolyn Lambert is the Gaskell Society’s Letters Recorder, responsible for hunting down and investigating new Gaskell letters. Her talk will cover academic theories of letter-writing; letters in Gaskell’s fiction and the wit and wisdom of Elizabeth Gaskell, according to Carolyn: “one of the best letter writers of the nineteenth-century: gossipy, acerbic and endlessly entertaining” The […]
Domestic Mental Cruelty in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Works
Francis Holland School 39 Graham Terrace, London, United KingdomA talk by Kathleen Gentle Kathleen Gentle, a postgraduate researcher at Anglia Ruskin University, examines the depiction of psychological abuse in familial and spousal relationships and focusing on Sylvia’s Lovers and the short stories “Morton Hall” and “The Grey Woman”. We are very grateful to Kathleen for stepping in at short notice to replace our […]
Mrs Gaskell’s Personal Pantheon – with Bob Gamble
Francis Holland School 39 Graham Terrace, London, United KingdomBob’s book of this title appeared in August 2020 and highlights connections between Unitarian communities across England by following the life and times of Elizabeth Gaskell's dear friend, Janetta Bishop Mitchell. Janetta's closeness to the Reverend William Turner of Newcastle upon Tyne emphasises why a correct identification of 'Miss Mitchell' is significant to Gaskell biography. This […]
Can we Devise a Gaskell Brand? – with Anthony Burton
Francis Holland School 39 Graham Terrace, London, United KingdomAs anyone who has attended Gaskell Society conferences, or joined any of the Gaskell House’s online events, will know, Anthony has a vast and wide-ranging amount of knowledge about Elizabeth Gaskell, her life, times and contemporaries. He will use Gaskell, Dickens, Austen and the Brontës to look at how writers have been promoted (or promoted […]