Gaskell Blog © Katherine Cox In 1832 she married William Gaskell, he was a minister at the Cross Street Unitarian chapel in Manchester. She was active in the parish passing out food and clothing to those in need and very aware of the poverty that surrounded her. Thousands in the city were unemployed due to…
The Moorland Cottage
Gaskell Blog © Katherine Cox Introduction to the Novel Writing and Publishing History of The Moorland Cottage Chapter One Summary and Analysis A Visual Tour of the Opening Chapter Visual Annotation of Moorland Flowers Chapter Two Summary and Analysis Annotation: Victorian Afternoon Tea Annotation: Tea with Mrs. Buxton Visual Tour of The Buxton’s Residence Chapter…
About Gaskell
Life as an Author Road to Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell’s Publishers: Part One Chapman & Hall and the influences of the Howitts and John Forster Family and Personal Life Introduction to Gaskell Elizabeth Gaskell Biography: Birth, Childhood, & Education Gaskell’s Manchester Home 84 Plymouth Grove Living at Elizabeth Gaskell’s Residence: An Interview with Monica Fairview 84…
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Family Series – her Father: William Stevenson, part I
Gaskell Blog © Katherine Cox Born into a Scottish family with a strong Naval background his Post-Captain father, Joseph Stevenson, dearly wanted a son in the church and decided his second child, William, would be the one. It must have been difficult growing up with his future already planned. Especially when he seems to have…
Please update your Gaskell Blog Links
Gaskell Blog has reverted to its WordPress URL address, so rather than gaskellblog.com (which I hadn’t planned on renewing when it expired but was unfortunately picked up by a spammer) it is located at https://gaskellblog.wordpress.com Please update any links and your Google Readers accordingly. Sorry for any confusion and a special thank you to Luciana for bringing this to…
The Rylands Online Collection
Browse images related to Mrs. Gaskell at the Rylands Online Collection. Including some of her letters, plates of drawings that originally appeared in first editions or the magazine publications of her works, and the famous miniature portrait. I highly recommend you to visit it:
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth: Opinions of Acquaintances
George Eliot, letter to Mrs.Peter Taylor, February 1, 1853 Of course you have read ‘Ruth’ by this time. Its style was a great refreshment to me, from its finish and fullness. How women have the courage to write and publishers the spirit to buy at a high price the false and feeble representations of life…
A Guest Post at Regency Inkwell
Please join me at the lovely blog, Regency Inkwell, where I was invited by Pamela and Miguelina to write a guest post. As the wife of a Unitarian Minister living in Manchester, Elizabeth Gaskell was acutely aware of factory life and the struggles of the poor and wrote about them in her first novel Mary…
The Picnic at Cranford, a Blog Tour: 4th Stop
Maria Grazia of Fly High is our last visit for the blog tour and not only has she written a lovely post about Cranford she is also offering two giveaways! Follow me and visit her post! You must be a great writer to build a masterpiece on tiny, trivial, ordinary events. This is what you…
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