Admittedly, I am at the center of the demographic most likely to enjoy a memoir about having a passionate attachment to a female Victorian novelist, but “The Victorian and the Romantic,” a new book by ...

Although Elizabeth Gaskell's novella "Cousin Phillis" purports to be a text about a woman, it is in essence a text about men and male fantasies of the female with the heroine's own body and discourse ...

What is it like to be a writer-in-residence at the home of the Cranford novelist, when you haven't read any of her work? Three women have been chosen for the role at Elizabeth Gaskell's House in ...

This essay extends the biographical knowledge of the lives of Elizabeth Gaskell's daughters and their father following Gaskell's death in 1865, in particular by making use of the recent publication of ...

18:44, Wed, Jul 9, 2025 Updated: 18:14, Thu, Jul 10, 2025 Period drama lovers will be encapsulated by this series released on BBC One in 1999. An adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel of the same ...