A digital collection of Elizabeth Gaskell’s work has been launched to mark the 150th anniversary of the Victorian author’s death. The University of Manchester Library have digitising Gaskell’s works ...

The exhibition includes a map of locations which inspired the writer An exhibition investigating how a 19th Century novelist depicted her native city has opened at her former home. Elizabeth Gaskell, ...

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This article presents new information about ‘Miss Mitchell’, a previously misidentified figure in Gaskell biography, and considers her role in Elizabeth Gaskell’s life. The Gaskells’ governess Rosa ...

Bridgerton (right) has been seen by 82 million viewers worldwide, ten times the audience the BBC's Cranford garnered in 2007 It is 170 years since Elizabeth Gaskell first published her most popular ...

The Manchester home of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell opens to the public on Sunday after a £2.5m restoration. The 19th Century novelist wrote Cranford, North and South, and Wives and ...

This collection includes 10 classics by this notable Victorian author, whose novels shown brutal and detailed portraits of lives of the poor, the orphans and the working class people in mid Victorian ...

A collection of letters written by two Victorian families – including one of the era’s best loved writers - have been acquired by The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library. The ...

The mystery behind a portrait believed to be that of Elizabeth Gaskell has been solved thanks to high-tech recognition software. The true identity of a silhouette painting belonging to Gaskell’s ...