A talk by Dr Emma Probett. At first glance the fictional lives of Gaskell’s Sylvia Robson and Jane Austen’s Emma Woodhouse are almost complete opposites. Emma is described as “handsome, […]
A talk by Dr Katie McGettigan, Royal Holloway, University of London In July 1860, the American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a transatlantic best-seller, wrote to […]
A talk by Dr Sara Zadrozny, University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education The census of 1851, the year in which “Our Society at Cranford” first appeared in Household Words, […]