The only known complete handwritten manuscript of one of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels will feature in the world's largest online collection of her works which went live last night – giving the public ...

Nineteenth century British author Elizabeth Gaskell (1820-1865) picks up where the tradition of Jane Austen left off, and moves forward posthaste, not simply chronologically but ideologically as well.

As the title suggests, I read Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South."I was reading Middlemarch at the same time, and since I ...

Last year, fellow Jane Austen fans had a bumper harvest of new shows and audiobooks as part of the 250th anniversary of her birth. And though the response to Emerald Fennell’s 2026 film version of ...

Life below stairs in the home of Cranford author Elizabeth Gaskell's household will be explored in a fascinating talk.

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