BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Gaskell Society - ECPv6.15.20//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:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD 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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260418T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260418T130000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20251014T161501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T185750Z UID:8181-1776506400-1776517200@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Gaskell Society Annual General Meeting 2026 DESCRIPTION:« All Events\n \n\n Gaskell Society Annual General Meeting 2026\n 18 April\n \,\n10:00 am\n –\n1:00 pm \n\nFree \nOur Annual General Meeting takes place at Cross Street Chapel in Manchester \n10.00 Tea and Coffee \n10.30 Annual General Meeting \n11.45 The Daphne Carrick Memorial Lecture  \nThe Rural Idyll and the Changing World: Challenging Conventionality in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Thomas Hardy\nDr Diane Duffy continues her exploration of Elizabeth Gaskell’s literary legacy. \nThis paper developed from an idea that Thomas Hardy could be viewed as a successor to Elizabeth Gaskell; someone who might be considered as part of that legacy. \nHardy was born in 1840\, thirty years after Gaskell\, yet much of his writing considers the same social issues and concerns: a sympathetic presentation of the working classes which he\, like Gaskell\, reflects in the use of dialect; the disruptive effects of the modern world on rural communities; and the contentious ‘Woman Question’. \nThis paper examines how Hardy and Gaskell treat these political issues in some of their major works: Gaskell’s Cousin Phillis and Wives and Daughters serialised in the Cornhill Magazine between 1863 and 1865 and Hardy’s first major novel\, Far from the Madding Crowd serialised in the same magazine approximately ten years later.  Finally\, I examine the ways in which both novelists treat fallenness.  Hardy presents a Ruth – like figure in the character of Tess Durbeyfield and therefore these two novels\, Gaskell’s Ruth and Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles\, published thirty-eight years apart\, allow us to examine and ultimately assess how\, if at all\, social attitudes to fallenness and female sexuality had changed over that period. \nThe AGM itself is free to all members (no need to book) and there is no charge for The Daphne Carrick Memorial Lecture\, so please join us at Cross St or on Zoom. Members on our emailing list will receive an invitation link by email. \nThe lecture is also open to non-members – all welcome from 11.45. \n\n Categories:\n Manchester\, meeting\, talk \n\n The Gaskell Society\n\n \n \n \nView Organiser Website \n\n \n gaskellsociety@gmail.com \n \nUse the links below to buy books and you’ll be supporting the Gaskell Society and independent bookshops. \n\n Cross Street Chapel\n\nCross Street\,\n \n Manchester\,\n M2 1NL\n United Kingdom\n\n\n + Google Map \n\n \n \n \n\n View Venue Website \n\n\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Gaskell – Far From the Madding Crowd \n\n\n \n The Invention of Charlotte Brontë – Elizabeth Gaskell and her Infamous Brontë Biography URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/agm-2026/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260303T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260303T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20250513T144407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T115617Z UID:7500-1772542800-1772550000@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Manchester Meeting - 'Elizabeth and Ruth' with Livi Michael DESCRIPTION:« All Events\n \n\n Manchester Meeting – ‘Elizabeth and Ruth’ with Livi Michael\n 3 March\n \,\n1:00 pm\n –\n3:00 pm \n\n£5 – £6 \nWe’re thrilled that our speaker for March will be the wonderful author Livi Michael\, who will talk about the background research undertaken for her Victorian novel\, Elizabeth and Ruth\, published by Salt (February 2026). \nManchester 1849. Elizabeth Gaskell\, newly famous author of Mary Barton\, visits a young Irish prostitute in Manchester’s New Bailey prison. The girl is about to be discharged onto the Manchester streets\, where her old life of poverty and violence awaits her. Elizabeth is determined to help her\, but few people will employ an ex-prostitute from prison. In desperation\, Elizabeth writes to Charles Dickens for advice. \nBased on the real correspondence between Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens\, Elizabeth and Ruth tells a story of hypocrisy and suppression\, and how Elizabeth navigates the censorship and prejudice of the day to help the young girl and to write the novel about her that will ultimately be banned and burned after publication. \nEveryone is most welcome to come along\, members and non-members alike. Doors open at 1pm (feel free to bring a packed lunch) and the talk will begin at 1.30pm.Tickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members. Simply pay on the door or book online here (no booking fee). \nWe’ll also make a recording available. A link and password will be sent to all ticket holders after the event.  \n\n \n \n\n Categories:\n Manchester\, Meeting\, talk \n\n The Gaskell Society\n\n \n \n \nView Organiser Website \n\n \n gaskellsociety@gmail.com \n \n\n Cross Street Chapel\n\nCross Street\,\n \n Manchester\,\n M2 1NL\n United Kingdom\n\n\n + Google Map \n\n \n \n \n\n View Venue Website \n\n\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Gaskell – Far From the Madding Crowd \n\n\n \n Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Gaskell – Far From the Madding Crowd URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-march-2026/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20260203T173118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T173325Z UID:8548-1770825600-1770829200@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Anatomy of the Author - Elizabeth Gaskell and the Female Gothic DESCRIPTION:Through Elizabeth Gaskell and the female gothic\, we will use the literary theoretical school of “creative criticism” to explore how to set up an autobiographical survey of an author and a genre. We will explore Gaskell’s gothic short stories as well as the speaker’s experience of writing this work in Manchester during a Fulbright Award\, to see how the critic and the subject can come together in innovative ways. \nThis talk is given by Dr Amy Montz (University of Southern Indiana). She is the University of Manchester Visiting Fulbright Scholar and good friend of the Gaskell Society – her talk will draw on her work undertaken during her time in Manchester. \nIt takes place in the Samuel Alexander Building (Room A101) and is free and open to all.  You can see the location of the Samuel Alexander Building\, plus parking\, public transport access information etc here https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/maps/interactive-map/?id=63 \nAs a Gaskellian aside (if we may)\, the building is right across Oxford Road from Dover Street\, the location of Elizabeth Gaskell’s first marital home\, where she lived with William 1832-1842. URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/anatomy-of-the-author-elizabeth-gaskell-and-the-female-gothic/ LOCATION:University of Manchester\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M13 9PL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260203T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260203T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20250513T145615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T141259Z UID:7499-1770123600-1770130800@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:The Earliest Continental Travellers' Tales of Manchester DESCRIPTION:The term grand tour conjures up English aristocrats sent to the Continent to complete their cultural education.  Less well known is the reverse grand tour. In the first half of the eighteenth century Continental visitors came in increasing numbers to Great Britain (including Voltaire\, Montesquieu and Rousseau).  None came to Manchester. \nIt was not until the 1760s that awareness of British progress in technology and trade led Continentals to venture up North.  Governments sent ‘spies’ to view industrial production\, inspect mines\, and report on inland navigation.  And as travel writing vied with the novel in popularity\, these visitors were followed by authors keen to satisfy the demand for guidebooks and travel diaries.  All in all about two dozen of these first reports of Manchester from 1760 to 1805 survive\, mainly by German and French writers\, together with one each from Dutch\, Italian\, Danish and Swedish writers.\n\nWhy did they come?  What did they think noteworthy about Manchester and its inhabitants\, what disconcerting?  What were its distinguishing features?  And how did they interpret their observations to their readership?   This will be the subject of Philip Morey‘s talk. He will focus on the foreigners’ varied reactions to the town and its surroundings\, its urban environment\, canal network\, industry\, inhabitants and leisure pursuits – at a time when the overwhelming majority find the nascent Industrial Revolution inspiring.\nEveryone is most welcome to come along\, members and non-members alike. Doors open at 1pm (feel free to bring a packed lunch) and the talk will begin at 1.30pm. \nTickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members. Simply pay on the door\, book online (link coming soon- no booking fee). URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-february-2026/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260203T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260228T000000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20260204T163500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T174129Z UID:8557-1770076800-1772236800@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:RECORDING - The Earliest Continental Travellers' Tales of Manchester DESCRIPTION:The term grand tour conjures up English aristocrats sent to the Continent to complete their cultural education.  Less well known is the reverse grand tour. In the first half of the eighteenth century Continental visitors came in increasing numbers to Great Britain (including Voltaire\, Montesquieu and Rousseau).  None came to Manchester. \nIt was not until the 1760s that awareness of British progress in technology and trade led Continentals to venture up North.  Governments sent ‘spies’ to view industrial production\, inspect mines\, and report on inland navigation.  And as travel writing vied with the novel in popularity\, these visitors were followed by authors keen to satisfy the demand for guidebooks and travel diaries.  All in all about two dozen of these first reports of Manchester from 1760 to 1805 survive\, mainly by German and French writers\, together with one each from Dutch\, Italian\, Danish and Swedish writers.\n\nWhy did they come?  What did they think noteworthy about Manchester and its inhabitants\, what disconcerting?  What were its distinguishing features?  And how did they interpret their observations to their readership?   This will be the subject of Philip Morey‘s talk. He will focus on the foreigners’ varied reactions to the town and its surroundings\, its urban environment\, canal network\, industry\, inhabitants and leisure pursuits – at a time when the overwhelming majority find the nascent Industrial Revolution inspiring.\nTickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members (no booking fee). Your ticket will give you access to the recording link and its password. It will be available to view until 28 February 2026.  URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/the-earliest-continental-travellers-tales-of-manchester-recording/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Manchester,Online,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251202T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251202T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20250513T145056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251107T180101Z UID:7498-1764680400-1764687600@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Manchester Meeting - Christmas Travel in Elizabeth Gaskell's Day DESCRIPTION:Anthony Burton\, one of our most popular speakers\, returns for his annual festive lecture – now a traditional part of every Gaskell Society Christmas celebration. \nElizabeth Gaskell liked to spend Christmas quietly by her fireside.  But around her\, Victorian people showed increasing seasonal mobility.   Children came to celebrate with the family:  “Home for the Holidays” was a recurrent theme\, featuring exuberant schoolboys in stage-coaches.  Then came the railways\, with special trains even on Christmas Day.  Food was also on the move: at home the beef or turkey on the table had probably walked to market\, and Christmas fruits came from the Mediterranean\, the tropics\, China.  Finally\, from the safety of their armchairs\, Victorian readers liked to discover from the media how a traditional British Christmas was celebrated at the remote ends of the empire and beyond. \nAnthony Burton\, after degrees in English literature\, worked as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum\, London\, specialising in the visual and literary culture of the Victorian period. He’s an active member of the Gaskell Society Committee and is currently editor of the Gaskell Society newsletter. He’s the author of a number of publications for the Society\, including Christmas with the Gaskells\, Elizabeth Gaskell: Homes and Haunts and Elizabeth Gaskell\, Manchester’s Versatile Storyteller. \nEveryone is most welcome to come along\, members and non-members alike. Doors open at 1pm (feel free to bring a packed lunch) and the talk will begin at 1.30pm. Tickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members. Simply pay on the door or book online using the link below. We hope to make a recording available for ticket holders unable to attend on the day. URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-december-2025/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/a-merry-christmas-995d4b.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20250806T145342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T162338Z UID:7846-1762261200-1762268400@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:"That Wicked Paris": Fashioning the Good Englishwoman DESCRIPTION:« All Events\n \n 4 November\n \,\n1:00 pm\n –\n3:00 pm \n\n “That Wicked Paris”: Fashioning the Good Englishwoman\n\n£5 – £6 \n \nWe’re absolutely delighted to welcome Professor Amy L. Montz of the University of Southern Indiana to give our November lecture. She is the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the University of Manchester.   \nThe crises of authenticity sparked by the expanding British Empire and increasing contact with France often were articulated through fictional and non-fictional discussions of fashion. As Englishwomen were figured as symbols of nation\, attention to their presentations of self\, and therefore of Englishness\, became anxious attention to their fashion choices. The minute details of dress – petticoats\, turbans\, crinolines\, and fabrics – became a particular point of discussion for Sarah Stickney Ellis\, Eliza Lynn Linton\, and Elizabeth Gaskell\, and these pieces of ensemble were read for national as well as personal origin and allegiance. \nIn this talk\, Amy will argue that Gaskell’s Cranford (1853) offers a microcosmic view of the larger English concern over the Empire’s and France’s influence on the people of England through Englishwomen’s fashionable choices. Through its discussions of shawls\, crinolines\, and red umbrellas\, Gaskell’s novel demonstrates that everyday items of domesticity speak not only of the concerns of women\, but also of the concerns of nation. \nAmy’s book\, Dressing for England: Fashion and Nationalism in Victorian Novels will be published by SUNY Press in December 2025.  \nPlease note this is a change to our previously published schedule. Dr Diane Duffy’s lecture\,  ‘The Rural Idyll and the Changing World: Challenging Conventionality in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Thomas Hardy’ will be presented at our Annual General Meeting in April 2026.  \nEveryone is most welcome to come along\, members and non-members alike. Doors open at 1pm (feel free to bring a packed lunch) and the talk will begin at 1.30pm. \nTickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members. Simply pay on the door or book online with the button below (no booking fee).  \nWe’ll make a recording available to ticket holders after the event\, so if you can’t make the date\, you can still watch the lecture. The Gaskell Society is a UK registered charity (1098017) and your entry fee helps us to host future events. \n\n \n \n\n Categories:\n Manchester\, meeting\, talk \n\n The Gaskell Society\n\n \n \n \nView Organiser Website \n\n \n gaskellsociety@gmail.com \n \n\n Cross Street Chapel\n\nCross Street\,\n \n Manchester\,\n M2 1NL\n United Kingdom\n\n\n + Google Map \n\n \n \n \n\n View Venue Website \n\n\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Online Talk: Halloween – Victorian Ghost Stories \n\n\n \n Mary Sidney Herbert and Elizabeth Gaskell: networks across time and place URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-november-2025/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251031T233000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20251009T185537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T191337Z UID:8079-1760014800-1761953400@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:RECORDING ACCESS - Samuel Bamford and the Gaskells DESCRIPTION:RECORDING ACCESS – Samuel Bamford and the Gaskells\n£5 – £6 \n« All Events \n \nRobert Poole was the speaker at our October meeting. He delivered a fascinating lecture about the radical writer and reformer\, Samuel Bamford (1788-1872)\, best known for his prominent role in the 1819 Peterloo demonstration in Manchester and his memoirs Passages in the Life of a Radical and Early Days. He is named in Mary Barton where his poem ‘God Help the Poor’ is reproduced\, which led to Elizabeth visiting his home to take him a signed copy of Tennyson’s poetry – an encounter vividly described in one of her letters. Bamford also worked with William Gaskell and Manchester Lit and Phil on the first Lancashire dialect dictionary – the dialect in Mary Barton is essentially Bamford’s. The lives of these Manchester writers are linked in other ways\, through Dickens\, the Carlyles\, and the Preston lockout (the background to North and South). But while they shared many sentiments\, the life of a working-class writer faced far more obstacles than that of Elizabeth Gaskell. \nRobert Poole is a historian of 18th and 19th century Britain. He is the author of Peterloo: the English Uprising\, co-author of the graphic novel Peterloo\, and consultant historian to the 2019 Peterloo bicentenary commemoration in Manchester. He also writes on the cultural history of the space age\, and is author of Earthrise: how man first saw the Earth. He has written\, lectured and broadcast internationally and is Emeritus Professor at the School of Psychology and Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. \nYour ticket will give you access to the online recording\, which we’ll keep online until Friday October 31st 2025. \nPlease don’t share the access: as a charity\, the Gaskell Society relies on its income from events. \nTickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members: use the ‘book now’ link below. \n\n\n \n\n\n\nSamuel Bamford and the Gaskells \n\nThomas Hardy and Elizabeth Gaskell – Far From the Madding Crowd URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/recording-samuel-bamford-and-the-gaskells/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Bamford-1856-1-1.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251007T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251007T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20250513T142040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250725T090530Z UID:7494-1759842000-1759849200@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Samuel Bamford and the Gaskells DESCRIPTION:« All Events\n \n\n Samuel Bamford and the Gaskells\n 7 October\n \,\n1:00 pm\n –\n3:00 pm \n\n£5 – £6 \n \nWe’re delighted to welcome Robert Poole to our October meeting. He’ll talk about the radical writer and reformer\, Samuel Bamford (1788-1872)\, best known for his prominent role in the 1819 Peterloo demonstration in Manchester and his memoirs Passages in the Life of a Radical and Early Days. He is named in Mary Barton where his poem ‘God Help the Poor’ is reproduced\, which led to Elizabeth visiting his home to take him a signed copy of Tennyson’s poetry – an encounter vividly described in one of her letters. Bamford also worked with William Gaskell and Manchester Lit and Phil on the first Lancashire dialect dictionary – the dialect in Mary Barton is essentially Bamford’s. The lives of these Manchester writers are linked in other ways\, through Dickens\, the Carlyles\, and the Preston lockout (the background to North and South). But while they shared many sentiments\, the life of a working-class writer faced far more obstacles than that of Elizabeth Gaskell. \nRobert Poole is a historian of 18th and 19th century Britain. He is the author of Peterloo: the English Uprising\, co-author of the graphic novel Peterloo\, and consultant historian to the 2019 Peterloo bicentenary commemoration in Manchester. He also writes on the cultural history of the space age\, and is author of Earthrise: how man first saw the Earth. He has written\, lectured and broadcast internationally and is Emeritus Professor at the School of Psychology and Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. \nEveryone is most welcome to come along\, members and non-members alike. Doors open at 1pm (feel free to bring a packed lunch) and the talk will begin at 1.30pm. \nTickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members. Simply pay on the door or book online with the button below (no booking fee). \nWe’ll make a recording available to ticket holders after the event\, so if you can’t make the date\, you can still watch the lecture \n\n \n \n\n Categories:\n Manchester\, meeting\, talk \n\n The Gaskell Society\n\n \n \n \nView Organiser Website \n\n \n gaskellsociety@gmail.com \n \n\n Cross Street Chapel\n\nCross Street\,\n \n Manchester\,\n M2 1NL\n United Kingdom\n\n\n + Google Map \n\n \n \n \n\n View Venue Website \n\n\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Online Talk: North and South – Fashion in the TV Classic and Novel \n\n\n \n Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Gaskell – Far From the Madding Crowd URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-october-2025/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250412T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250412T130000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20241112T155523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250412T144632Z UID:6886-1744452000-1744462800@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:The Gaskell Society Annual General Meeting 2025 DESCRIPTION:« All Events\n \n\n The Gaskell Society Annual General Meeting 2025\n 12 April\n \,\n10:00 am\n –\n1:00 pm \nOur 40th Annual General Meeting takes place at Cross Street Chapel in Manchester on Saturday 12 April\, 2025. \n10.00 Tea and Coffee \n10.30 Annual General Meeting\n11.45 The Daphne Carrick Memorial Lecture\n‘It is only to the kindness of my friends that I can owe their company’ – Female Solidarity in the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell by Alice Jackman.\nFemale solidarity is a fundamental\, yet under-explored\, theme within the novels and short stories of Elizabeth Gaskell. Writing at a time when the ‘Woman Question’ was gaining prominence in the social fabric of Victorian society\, Gaskell’s focus on the lives of women reveals a writer deeply concerned with the interrelations of female lives.  \nThis talk aims to probe Gaskell’s writing and expose her consistent messaging with regards to female alliance\, both when it is strategically implied and when it is made explicit within the narrative\, demonstrating Gaskell’s commitment to the ideals of female solidarity. Using four themes as a foundation for this exploration (mentoring\, community\, communication and empathy)\, Alice reveals how these themes are utilised in structure and narrative voice. This methodology reveals an embedded narrative concern with the positive outcomes that can be achieved when women support other women\, regardless of age\, marital status\, class boundaries and societal expectations. Rather than positioning female friendship as a balm to patriarchal victimhood\, she reorients the conversation away from viewing the female characters in relation to the male and focus on their relationships with each other\, offering a broader theme of female interconnection. \nAlice Jackman is a post graduate researcher and associate lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). Her PhD considers the work of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell\, exploring how the interconnection of the female walker and their environment is presented in the narrative form. Alice has been published in The Gaskell Journal and was joint organiser of the Elizabeth Gaskell Conference at ARU in summer 2023. \nThe AGM is free to all members and there is no charge for The Daphne Carrick Memorial Lecture\, so please join us at Cross St or on Zoom. \nMembers on our emailing list will receive an invitation link by email.   \nIf you have any queries\, drop us a line. \n\n Categories:\n AGM\, Manchester \n\n The Gaskell Society\n\n \n \n \nView Organiser Website \n\n \n gaskellsociety@gmail.com \n \n\n Cross Street Chapel\n\nCross Street\,\n \n Manchester\,\n M2 1NL\n United Kingdom\n\n\n + Google Map \n\n \n \n \n\n View Venue Website \n\n\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Paris Conference: Elizabeth Gaskell – Revolutionary \n\n\n \n Knutsford Meeting – Eliot & Gaskell\, Critical Responses URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/the-gaskell-society-annual-general-meeting-2025/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:AGM,Manchester ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250304T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250304T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20240606T103225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T110432Z UID:6374-1741093200-1741100400@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Manchester Meeting - Britishness and the Four Nations in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to welcome Duncan Hamilton to our March meeting. \nWe live in a world of friction between the nations of the United Kingdom. Resurgent Scotland\, resilient Wales and confident Northern Ireland jostle with long-dominant England for an equal voice on Britain’s national stage. From Scotland’s independence referendum to Brexit\, the 2010s and 2020s have ushered in a period of flux for the United Kingdom\, but questions about the relationship between national cultures and the idea of ‘Britishness’ are not unique to our time. In asking ourselves what Britishness now means – in doing so\, asking the same of Englishness\, Scottishness\, Welshness and Irishness – we must turn to voices from history who have also sought an answer to that vital question. Elizabeth Gaskell is one such voice. \nBritain’s four national cultures repeatedly surface throughout Gaskell’s body of work. From the Scottish intellectual Mr. Gibson in Wives and Daughters\, to the coarse Irish blacklegs of North and South\, to depictions of a stoic and mysterious Wales in both Ruth and her short fiction. Gaskell’s fascination with the cultural diversity of the British Isles dominates her literature. So too does her native Englishness come under scrutiny – from satirising an English pretension to gentility in Cranford to exploring England’s heterogeneity in the aptly-titled North and South. This talk explores all four national cultures of the United Kingdom\, examining Gaskell’s characterisation of each and their interactions within her literature\, to understand Gaskell’s perspective on British identity and how it relates to our interpretation of the concept today. \nDuncan Hamilton is a third-year PhD student at the University of Manchester and regular volunteer at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House. He is currently researching literature produced by the Chartist movement with a particular focus on Chartism’s leading working-class poet\, Thomas Cooper. He is also interested in historiography and the efforts of Chartist writers to construct an alternative English history to the dominant narrative of the period. He has a passion for genealogy and his Victorian ancestry includes migrants from Ireland\, Chartists from Scotland and powerloom weavers from Manchester. \nEveryone is most welcome to come along\, members and non-members alike. Doors open at 1pm (feel free to bring a packed lunch) and the talk will begin at 1.30pm. \nTickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members. Simply pay on the door\, or use the link below –  (no booking fee). \n  URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-march-2025/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250204T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250204T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20240606T103020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241112T154925Z UID:6368-1738674000-1738681200@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Manchester Meeting - Meta Gaskell and James Bryce: the story of a failed relationship DESCRIPTION:Margaret Emily Gaskell (1837-1913) – universally known as Meta – was the second of William and Elizabeth Gaskell’s four daughters\, and the elder of the two who remained unmarried. She lived at Plymouth Grove until her death\, and during her father’s lifetime and beyond she helped to maintain the household’s standing as a noted centre of literary society and intellectual conversation. \nIn this talk\, Professor Stuart Jones of the University of Manchester discusses the evidence he has uncovered of a previously unknown relationship in the 1870s between Meta and James Bryce (1838-1922)\, the historian and future Liberal cabinet minister\, ambassador\, and a major public figure of the late Victorian period and after. The story about the relationship and its end\, told through two sequences of letters\, tells us a great deal about the limits of courtship conventions in upper middle-class Victorian society. \nStuart Jones is a historian specialising in the history of political thought\, the history of universities\, and the history of the humanities and social sciences. He has been Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester since 2008. He’s the author or (co)editor of five books\, including (most recently) Manchester Minds: a university history of ideas and The Simons of Manchester: how one family shaped a city and a nation. He has just completed major biography\, A Democratic Intellect: James Bryce and his World\, which is due for publication very soon. \nOur Manchester meetings take place in Cross Street Chapel on the first Tuesday of the month\, October-March (exc January). Everyone is most welcome to come along\, members and non-members alike. Doors open at 1pm (feel free to bring a packed lunch) and the talk will begin at 1.30pm.\nWe’ll let you know as soon as possible whether we’re able to offer a recording for ticket holders. \nTickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members. Simply pay on the door\, or use the link below (no booking fee) URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-february-2025/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241203T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241203T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20240606T102908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T154130Z UID:6369-1733230800-1733238000@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Manchester Meeting - Elizabeth Gaskell\, Celebrity DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Gaskell\, Celebrity: How she coped with fame\nIn ordinary life\, Elizabeth Gaskell enjoyed a certain status in Manchester as the wife of a prominent clergyman. But she soon achieved fame in her own right\, through her writings.  This talk\, by Anthony Burton\, explains how these appeared at first anonymously\, then under the names ‘E. C. Gaskell’ and ‘Mrs Gaskell’.  It was not until the 20th century that ‘Elizabeth Gaskell’ emerged. \nWhen she went to London in 1849 to encounter the literary establishment\, she fitted in effortlessly.  The talk therefore goes on to consider how her character (as described by contemporaries) enabled her to take fame in her stride\, without letting it go to her head.  Finally\, the talk points out that\, even if her name became famous\, her face did not.  It was only in the 20th century that portraits of her were widely published. \nOur Manchester meetings take place in Cross Street Chapel on the first Tuesday of the month\, October-March (exc January). Everyone is most welcome to come along\, members and non-members alike. Doors open at 1pm (feel free to bring a packed lunch) and Anthony’s talk will begin at 1.30pm. \nTickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members. Simply pay on the door\, or use the link below (no booking fee). \nWe’ll make a recording of this talk available to ticket holders for viewing after the event (we’re sorry we can’t live stream for acoustic reasons).  Book online\, or give us your email address at the meeting and we’ll make sure we send you the necessary link.  URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-december-2024/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Elizabeth-Gaskell-1864-750.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241105T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241105T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20240606T102810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241024T152745Z UID:6370-1730811600-1730818800@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Manchester Meeting - Female Role Models from Biblical Heroines DESCRIPTION:Author Sherry Ashworth looks at how Elizabeth Gaskell\,  George Eliot and Charles Dickens used biblical heroines to develop their own characters. \nOur Manchester meetings take place in Cross Street Chapel on the first Tuesday of the month\, October-March (exc January). Everyone is most welcome to come along\, members and non-members alike. Doors open at 1pm (feel free to bring a packed lunch) and the talk will begin at 1.30pm. \nTickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members. Simply pay on the door\, or use the link below (no booking fee). \nWe’ll make an in-meeting recording available online after the event.  Book online and we’ll send you the link. URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-november-2024/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241001T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241001T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20240606T102109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T091334Z UID:6365-1727787600-1727794800@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Manchester Meeting - Edmund Potter: MP\, FRS\, Calico Printer and Philanthropist DESCRIPTION:Edmund Potter is probably most famous for being the grandfather of the author\, Beatrix Potter\, but he had an illustrious career of his own. Edmund was a Calico Printer who owned a calico print works at Dinting Vale\, near Glossop\, Derbyshire\, that was once the largest calico printing factory in the world. \nKate Raine will share her research in a brief survey of Edmund’s life. The talk will look at his role in the great institutions\, society and politics in Manchester and the Dinting Vale Print Works. \nEdmund was  a lifelong friend of William Gaskell and the talk will look at the connections between the two families. \nKate Raine is an Archivist and a Director of Glossop Heritage Trust. She started researching the life of Edmund Potter and the Dinting Vale Print Works\, as part of her work for the Trust. \nOur Manchester meetings take place in Cross Street Chapel on the first Tuesday of the month\, October-March (exc January). Everyone is most welcome to come along\, members and non-members alike. Doors open at 1pm (feel free to bring a packed lunch) and the talk will begin at 1.30pm. \nTickets are £5 for members\, £6 for non-members. Simply pay on the door\, or use the link below (no booking fee). \nWe’ll make a recording of this talk available to ticket holders for viewing after the event (we’re sorry we can’t live stream for acoustic reasons).  Book online\, or give us your email address at the meeting and we’ll make sure we send you the necessary link.  URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/edmund-potter/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240420T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240420T130000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20230808T154410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240420T082815Z UID:4710-1713607200-1713618000@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:The Gaskell Society Annual General Meeting 2024 DESCRIPTION:Our Annual General Meeting takes place at Cross Street Chapel in Manchester\n10.00 Tea and Coffee\n10.30 Annual General Meeting\n11.45 The Daphne Carrick Memorial Lecture – Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell\nDr Emma Probett is a writer\, researcher and podcaster. She has a PhD in Victorian Studies and is currently writing a book on Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell and the novel of manners.\nThe AGM is free to all members and there is no charge for The Daphne Carrick Memorial Lecture\, so please join us at Cross St or on Zoom.\nMembers on our emailing list will receive an invitation link by email.\nIf you have any queries\, drop us a line. \nMembers unable to attend the meeting in person can vote using the link below. Please note that there will be no online\, in-meeting voting – votes will be counted in the room only\, with online totals added to the count at the meeting. Online voting will close at 9am on the day of the meeting.  \n\nVote now URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/the-gaskell-society-annual-general-meeting-2024/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:AGM,Manchester ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240305T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240305T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20230530T102532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T102820Z UID:4609-1709643600-1709650800@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Manchester Meeting - Elizabeth Gaskell in the Digital World DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to welcome Jessica Smith\, Creative Arts Archivist at the John Ryland Research Institute and Library. \nAs you may know\, the John Rylands Library holds a collection of Elizabeth Gaskell’s printed works and letters. They hold the original manuscripts for ‘The Grey Woman’\, Wives and Daughters\, The Life of Charlotte Brontë and ‘The Crooked Branch. They also hold letters sent to Gaskell by Charles Dickens. Jessica\, the guardian of these wonderful treasures\, will talk about the Gaskell archive\, touching on content\, catalogues\, digitisation and accruals\, and also the collection’s potential for digital scholarship and visualisation. \nThe talk begins at 1.30pm. We’ll make a recording available for ticketholders to view after the event. \nAll are welcome – both members and non-members. Member tickets are £5\, non-members £6. URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-march-2024/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240206T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240206T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20230530T102351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231210T095834Z UID:4607-1707224400-1707231600@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:The Victorian House: Elizabeth Gaskell's House in Context DESCRIPTION:Is Elizabeth Gaskell’s House a ‘typical’ Victorian house?  Surely houses changed a lot over Victoria’s 63-year-long reign?\nAnthony Burton examines various aspects of Victorian domestic architecture\, in order to show how Elizabeth Gaskell’s House fits in.\n\nDoors open at 1pm and the talk begins at 1.30pm. \nWe’ll make a recording available for online viewing after the event. \nAll are welcome – both members and non-members. Member tickets are £5\, non-members £6. URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-february-2024/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:history,Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231205T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231205T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20230530T101952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231201T155945Z UID:4605-1701781200-1701788400@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Manchester Meeting - Gaskell and the Fairy Tale DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Gaskell’s interest in the fairy tale and her use of fairy-tale motifs throughout her writing have been curiously neglected by scholars.  The fairy tale\, like the Gothic and the ghostly\, operates in a world of magic realism\, its conventions straddling two worlds in which the supernatural is accepted as normal in an apparently realistic setting.  Like the Gothic and the ghostly\, the fairy tale offered Gaskell the opportunity to explore the transgressive and the strange.  Within the genre of the fairy tale\, the supernatural can be both disruptive and violent and\, like the Gothic\, its conventions came to be used by women writers\, as well as Gaskell\, as a way of expressing repressed anger.  The weird and the uncanny breaking into the world of the everyday enables Gaskell to unlock and address instability\, conflict and guilt as well as to critique social conventions. \nCarolyn Lambert is an independent scholar.  She was awarded her doctorate by the University of Sussex in 2013.  Publications include The Meanings of Home in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction (Victorian Secrets: 2013)\, For Better\, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women (Routledge: 2018)\, co-edited with Marion Shaw\, Frances Trollope\, (Edward Everett Root: 2020) and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Smaller Stories (Palgrave Macmillan: 2022).  Carolyn is currently Letters Recorder for the Gaskell Society. \nThe talk begins at 1.30pm. We’ll have tea\, coffee and mince pies to share! \nAll are welcome – both members and non-members. Member tickets are £5\, non-members £6. URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-december-2023/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231107T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231107T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20230530T101705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T170514Z UID:4603-1699362000-1699369200@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Manchester Meeting - Elizabeth Gaskell in the Train and on the Omnibus DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to welcome back committee member and one of our favourite speakers\, Anthony Burton. He’ll be offering a tempting taster for our 2024 Conference\, which explores the theme of travel. \nAnthony was intrigued by paintings featuring railway stations and omnibuses in the Dining Room at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House.  He has explored the background of these paintings and their artists:  a quest which took him to the Wild West\, and involved firework spectacles.  He went on to investigate how trains and omnibuses played a part in the life of Elizabeth Gaskell\, and how she featured them in her works. \nAfter degrees in English literature\, Anthony worked as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum\, London\, specialising in the visual and literary culture of the Victorian period. \nHis talk begins at 1.30pm. \nAll are welcome – both members and non-members. Member tickets are £5\, non-members £6. URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-november-2023/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231003T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231003T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20230530T084651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230721T113331Z UID:4589-1696338000-1696345200@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:Manchester Meeting - Domestic Mental Cruelty in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Works DESCRIPTION:Kathleen Gentle’s talk for our October meeting will focus on familial/spousal abuse in Gaskell’s works. She’ll  discuss Gaskell’s depiction of physical and mental cruelty and how she criticises her contemporary culture for their complicity in the abuse of women in spousal relationships. \nKathleen completed her undergraduate and MA degrees in English Literature at the University of York and is currently a PhD candidate at Anglia Ruskin University\, UK. Her thesis concerns the representation of domestic cruelty in Elizabeth Gaskell’s writings\, focusing on familial psychological violence in the context of contemporaneous legal and social debates concerning domestic abuse\, marriage\, and the family. \nThe talk begins at 1.30pm. \nAll are welcome – both members and non-members. Member tickets are £5\, non-members £6. URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/domestic-cruelty/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Manchester,Meeting,talk ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230422T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230422T130000 DTSTAMP:20260421T145807 CREATED:20220804T091701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T164816Z UID:3706-1682157600-1682168400@gaskellsociety.co.uk SUMMARY:The Gaskell Society Annual General Meeting 2023 DESCRIPTION:Our Annual General Meeting takes place at Cross Street Chapel in Manchester \n10.00 Tea and Coffee \n10.30 Annual General Meeting \n11.45 The Daphne Carrick Memorial Lecture  \nWhy Read Elizabeth Gaskell? by Elizabeth Williams \nElizabeth will highlight some of her very favourite passages from Gaskell’s work and discuss how relevant she still seems to be today. Elizabeth Williams is a much-loved former Chair of the Gaskell Society and her talks are both engaging and thought-provoking – and always delivered with her trademark humour. A delicious treat! \nThe AGM is free to all members and there is no charge for The Daphne Carrick Memorial Lecture\, so please join us at Cross St or on Zoom. \nMembers on our emailing list will receive an invitation link by email.   \nIf you have any queries\, drop us a line. \nRead the agenda URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/the-gaskell-society-annual-general-meeting-2023/ LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:AGM,Manchester ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR