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The Gaskell Journal

Editor: Dr Rebecca Styler (Lincoln)

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Abbreviations

In The Gaskell Journal, all page references to Elizabeth Gaskell's works are to the appropriate volumes, indicated by an abbreviated title, in the revised 'World's Classics' paperback series. These are as follows:

  1. Cranford, ed Elizabeth Porges Watson, 1980 CD
  2. 'Cousin Phillis' and other tales, ed Angus Easson, 1981 CP
  3. North and South, ed Angus Easson, 1982 NS
  4. Sylvia's Lovers, ed Andrew Sanders, 1982 SL
  5. Ruth, ed Alan Shelston, 1985 RU
  6. Wives and Daughters, ed Angus Easson, 1987 WD
  7. Mary Barton, ed Edgar Wright, 1987 MB
  8. 'My Lady Ludlow' and other stories, ed Edgar Wright, 1989 MLL
  9. 'A Dark Night's Work' and other stories, ed Suzanne Lewis, 1992 ADNW
  10. 'The Moorland Cottage' and other stories, ed Suzanne Lewis, 1995 MC
  11. The Life of Charlotte Bronte, ed Angus Easson, 1996 LCB

Other material will be given a full reference to an appropriate source, usually the relevant volume of the 'Knutsford' edition.

References to Gaskell's letters will normally be to The Letters of Mrs Gaskell, eds J. A. V. Chapple and A. Pollard (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1966), Letters, and to Further Letters of Gaskell, ed. John Chapple and Alan Shelston (Manchester University Press, 2000), Further Letters. We are grateful to the editors of this volume for their permission to quote from them.

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Officers and Committee, 2013-14

Partons
Sarah Prince
Alan Shelston

President
Shirley Foster

Vice-Presidents
Francesco Marroni
Jenny Uglow

Chairwoman
Ann O'Brien

Vice-Chairwoman
Elizabeth Williams

Treasurer
Clive Heath

Secretary
Pam Griffiths

Membership Secretary
Christine Lingard

Committee Members
Janet Allan
Helen Smith
Celia Crew
Jackie Tucker
Kate Smith
Ian Emberson
Libby Tempest


The Gaskell Journal
Volume 27 (2013)

CONTENTS


The Gaskell Journal
Volume 26 (2012)

CONTENTS


The Gaskell Journal
Volume 25 (2011)

CONTENTS

Foreword Louise Lee
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements

Articles

Andrew Maunder
Mary Barton Goes to London: Elizabeth Gaskell, Stage Adaptation and Working Class Audiences

Barbara Hardy
Two Women: Some Forms of Feeling in North and South

Perspectives: Ruth (1853)

Marina Cano López
This is a Feminist Novel: The Paradox of Female Passivity in Ruth

Loretta Miles Tollefson
Controlled Transgression: Ruth's Death and the Unitarian Concept of Sin

Jennifer M. Stolpa Flatt
Parallel Ministries: Ruth and Benson's Pastoral Work

Joanne Shattock
Elizabeth Gaskell and Her Readers: From Howitt's Journal to the Cornhill

Anna Koustinoudi
The Febrile 'I'/Eye: Illness as Narrative Technique in 'Six Weeks at Heppenheim'

A. J. Larner
A Habit of Headaches: The Neurological Case of Elizabeth Gaskell

Alan Shelston
From Cranford to the Conspirators of Naples: Gaskell and the Secret Society of the Camorra

Notes

Angus Easson
Going in to Dinner: Elizabeth Gaskell & W H. Russell at Chatsworth

Malcolm Pittock
Gaskell's Uses of Thomas Hood

Reviews

Valerie Sanders
Ella Dzelzainis and Cora Kaplan (eds), Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire

Rebecca Styler
Julia Sun-Joo Lee, The Ameritan Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel

Keiko Inokuma
Mitsuharu Matsuoka, ed., Society and culture in the Times of Elizabeth Gaskell: A Bicentennial Commemorative Volume

Fran Baker
Linda H. Peterson, Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market

Siv Jansson
Joanne Wilkes, Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Critical Reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot

Angus Easson
Alan Shelston, Elizabeth Gaskell (Brief Lives)

Alan Shelston
Francesco Marroni, Victorian Disharmonies: A Reconsideration of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction

Reports

Chairman's Report, the Society's Year Elizabeth Williams
The Gaskells' House, Plymouth Grove Janet Allan
Gaskell Society Annual Conference, 2011 Gwen Clarke
London and South East Branch, 2011 Frances Twinn
South West Branch, 2011 Elizabeth Schlenther
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The Gaskell Society of Japan, 2011 Tatsuhiro Ohno
The Gaskells' House Janet Allan

Index
Officers and Committee, 2011-12


The Gaskell Journal
Volume 24 (2010)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

Articles

Fran Baker
'Intimate and trusted correspondents: the Gaskells, Greens and Jamisons'

Angus Easson
'We have all of us one human heart': Elizabeth Gaskell and William Wordsworth

Emma Karin Brandin
Domestic Performance and Comedy in Cranford and Wives and Daughters

Tomoko Kanda
Labour Disputes and the City: Manchester and Milton-Northern

Malcolm Pittock
Hood for Boz in 'Our Society at Cranford'

Carolyn Lambert
Cross-dressing and interpretations of gender in Cranford and 'The Grey Woman'

Deborah Denenholz Morse
Haunting memories of the English Civil War in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Morton Hall' and 'Lois the Witch'

Victoria Williams
Gaskell as Scheherazade: Fairytale themes in Gousin Phillis and North and South

Aya Yatsugi
Gaskell's historical novels: Reactions to the period

Note

Thomas McLean
Two new Elizabeth Gaskell Letters from a New Zealand Collection

Reviews

Amanpal Garcha: From Sketch to Novel. The Development of Victorian Peter Skrine

Mary Elizabeth Hotz: Literary Remains, Representatives of Death and Burial in Victorian England Mary Summers

John Beer: Romanticism, Revolution and Language: The Fate of the Wordfrom Samuel Johnson to George Eliot John Chapple

Galia Ofek: Representations ofHair in Victorian Literature and Culture Jenny Uglow

Pamela Corpron Parker: 'Women of Letters: Elizabeth Gaskell's Autograph Collection and Victorian Celebrity' in Material Women 1750-1950 Consuming Desires and Collecting Practices, eds, Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Gwen Clarke

Tabitha Sparks: The Doctor in the Victorial Novel Ian Campbell

Thomas Recchio: Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford: A Publishing History Nancy S. Weyant

NicolaJ. Watson: Literary Tourism and Nineteenth Century Culture Frances Twinn

Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford and North and South read by Claire Wille Ann Watkins

Reports

The Gaskell Society Conference, 2009 Mary Haynes Kuhlman
The Society's Year Elizabeth Williams
The North-West Group Joan Leach
The Yorkshire Group Kate Smith
The South-West Group Elizabeth Schienther
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The Gaskell Society of Japan Akiko Suzue
The Gaskells' House Janet Allan

Notes on Contributors
Offices and Committee Members 2009-10
Index


The Gaskell Journal
Volume 23 (2009)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

Articles

Shirley Foster
Space in Gaskell's landscapes

Caroline M. Jackson-Houslton
Cranford: Gaskell's most radical novel?

Graham Handley
Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and scenes of clerical life

Emily Jane Morris
'Ready to hear and to help': Female agency and the reclamation of the fallen woman in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Lizzie Leigh'

Alan Shelston
Elizabeth Gaskell and the Crimean War

Notes

The translation of Elizabeth Gaskell's short stories and non-fiction writing into Japanese Mariko Tahira

'Politics and everyday life': Translating 'Morton Hall' into Japanese Tomoko Kanda

Reviews

Mary Jean Corbett: Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage and lncest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf Linda Hughes

Wendy Parkins: Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s Marion Shaw

Andrew Radford and Mark Sandy eds: Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era Janet Cunliffe-Jones

Elizabeth Sabiston: Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot Patricia Ingham

Laurel Brake and Marya Demoor, eds: The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century Alan Shelston

Reports

The Society's Year Elizabeth Williams
The North-West Group Joan Leach
The South-West Group Rosemary Marshall
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The Gaskell Society of Japan Akiko Suzue
The Gaskell House Janet Allan

Notes on Contributors
Offices and Committee Members 2008-9
Index


The Gaskell Journal
Volume 22 (2008)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

A trip to Scarborough and some letters: An informal remembrance of John Geoffrey Sharps Walter Smith

Articles

Mary Jeanette Moran
'A Word or Two here about Myself': Narrating Subjectivity and Feminist Ethics in Cranford

Lindsy Lawrence
Gender Play 'At our social table': The New Domesticity in the Cornhill and Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters

John Beer
Elizabeth Gaskell's Legacy from Romanticism

Alan Shelston
Education in the Life and Work of Elizabeth Gaskell

Carol A. Bock
Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Useful' Relatives: Katharine and Anthony Todd Thomson and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Michael F. Dixon
'A very nice American' - Gaskell's enigmatic Mr Collier

Robert Poole
'A poor Man I know': Samuel Bamford and the making of Mary Barton

Tatsuhiro Ohno
Statistical Analysis of the Structure of North and South: in the Quest for the Standard Interpretation

Rebecca White
'A joke spoken in a rather sad tone': Cranford, humour, and Heidi Thomas's television adaptation

Reviews

Review of the BBC Adaptation of Cranford, BBC 1, 2008 Alan Shelston

Susan E. Colón: The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel Graham Handley

Julie Nash: Servants and Paternalism in the works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell Margaret Lesser

Linda Dowling: Charles Eliot Norton: The Art of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America Jane Silvey

Marjorie Garson: Moral Taste: Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and Social Power in the Nineteenth-Century Novel Shirley Foster

Carolyn Lesjak: Working Fictions: A Genealogyof the Victorian Novel Rebecca Styler

Isobel Hurst: Victorian Women Writers and the Classics Caroline M. Jackson-Houlston

Patricia Zakreski: Representing Female Artistic Labour 1848-1890 Barbara Dennis

Reports for 2007

The Gaskell Society Conference Mary Haynes Kuhlman
The Society's Year Elizabeth Williams
The North-West Group Joan Leach
The Yorkshire Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West Group Rosemary Marshall
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The Gaskell Society of Japan Akiko Suzue
84 Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

Notes on Contributors
Offices and Committee Members 2008-9
Index


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 21 (2007)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

Articles

Nils Clausson
Romancing Manchester: Class, Gender and the Conflicting Genres of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South

Kamilla Elliott
The Romance of Politics and the Politics of Romance in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton

Caroline P. Huber
'Heroic Pioneers': The Ladies of Cranford

Lacy L. Lynch and Susan E. Colón
A Weakness, a Sin, or a Mind Diseased: A New Assessment of Cynthia Kirkpatrick

Graham Handley
'A Dark Night's Work' Reconsidered

Rebecca Styler
'Lois the Witch': A Unitarian Tale

Notes

Dramatic Irony in Ruth Tatsuhiro Ohno

The Changing Title of Mary Barton Maurice Milne

A 'tangled bank': Willets, Wedgwood, Darwin and Holland families John Chapple

Reviews

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Pickering Edition, Volumes 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 John Chapple

Elizabeth Gaskell, The Ghost in the Garden Room, ed. Fran Baker Elizabeth Williams

Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford: Penguin edition (2005), ed. Patricia Ingham Gwen Clarke

Patsy Stoneman: Elizabeth Gaskell (2nd ed) Jo Pryke

Jill L. Matus ed.: Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell Graham Handley

Louise Henson: 'Mesmeric Delusions: Mind and Mental Training in Elizabeth Gaskell's Writings' Josie Billington

Valerie Wainwright: Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster Ian Campbell

Allan Conrad Christensen: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion Renzo D'Agnillo

Reports for 2006

The Society's Year Elizabeth Williams
The North-West Group Joan Leach
The Yorkshire Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The Gaskell Society of Japan Akiko Suzue
84 Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

Notes on Contributors
Offices and Committee Members 2007-8
Index


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 20 (2006)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

Articles

Fran Baker
Primary sources for Gaskell research (1) Gaskell papers in the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester

John Chapple
Elizabeth Gaskell and Roman Catholicism

Linda K. Hughes
Gaskell the worker

Laura Kranzler
Gothic themes in Elizabeth Gaskell's fiction

Kathrin Levitan
Literature, the city and the census: examining the social body in Victorian Britain

Sarina Moore
Courts obscure: the architectural shaping of identity in 'Libbie Marsh's Three Eras'

Alan Shelston
Opportunity and anxiety: Elizabeth Gaskell and the development of the railway system

John Wyatt
The inoffensive philanthropist: the way of humility in North and South

Notes

Early Gaskell's Yorkshire ghost story John Chapple

Early Gaskell scholars (5) Sanders and Northup Larry Uffelman

Obituary

John Geoffrey Sharps (1936-2006) Alan Shelston

Reviews

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Pickering Edition, Volumes 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 John Chapple

Dudley Green, ed: The Letters of the Reverend Patrick Brontë Robert Barnard

Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton: World's Classics edition (2006), ed. Shirley Foster Gwen Clarke

Sophia Andres: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel. Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries Barbara Dennis

Tamara S. Wagner: Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 Howard F. Gregg

Graham Handley: An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology Alan Shelston

Reports for 2005

The Society's Year Elizabeth Williams
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The North-West Group Joan Leach
The Yorkshire Group Dudley Barlow
The Gaskell Society of Japan Mariko Tahira
Plymouth Grove Janet Allan
The 2005 Gaskell Society Conference Mary Hayes Kuhlman

Notes on Contributors
Index
Offices and Committee Members 2006-7


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 19 (2005)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

Articles

Gwen Clarke
A Classical Introduction: introductions from early World's Classics Editions to the works of Elizabeth Gaskell

Shirley Foster
Violence and disorder in Elizabeth Gaskell's short stories

Barbara Hardy
Cousin Phillis: the art of the novella

Anne Secord
Elizabeth Gaskell and the artisan naturalists of Manchester

Jane Silvey
It all began with Jane Eyre: the complex transatlantic web of women writers

Peter Skrine
Goethe and Emerson in Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester

Larry Uffelman
To Cranford via Philadelphia

Notes

Early Gaskell scholars (4) Adolphis William Ward 1837-1924 John A. V. Chapple

The new Complete Edition of the works of Elizabeth Gaskell Joanne Shattock

The Visual Life of Elizabeth Gaskell Elizabeth Williams on Tatsuhiro Ohno's web site

Reviews

Nicola Bown, Carolyn Burdett and Pamela Thurschwell, eds: The Victorian Supernatural Siv Jansson

Henrietta Garnett: Anny: A Life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie Angus Easson

Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South: The Norton Critical Edition, (2005), ed Alan Shelston Elizabeth Williams

Clare Pettitt: Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel Lorna Huett

Leonard Smith, ed: Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 Alan Shelston

Mariko Tahira: Gaskell no Manazashi (Gaskell's Sympathetic Gaze) Harumi James

Nancy S. Weyant: Elizabeth Gaskell: An Annotated Guide to English Language Sources, 1992-2001 Mary Haynes Kuhlman

Reports

The Society's Year Janet Allan
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
Activities in the North-West Joan Leach
The Gaskell Society of Japan Mariko Tahira
Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

Notes on Contributors
Index
Offices and Committee Members 2005-6


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 18 (2004)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

Articles

Christine Alexander
Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian Juvenilia

Tatsuhiro Ohno
The structure of Ruth: is the heroine's martyrdom inconsistent with the plot?

Marion Shaw
Sylvia's Lovers, then and now

Jennifer Stolpa
What's in a name? Echoes of biblical women in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth

Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet
'The Heart of John Middleton': a pilgrim's progress towards a new, feminized Christianity

Dick Watson
Heroes and heroines and Sylvia's Lovers

Note

An early Gaskell scholar remembered. Professor Stanton Whitfield: a pioneer in the study of Elizabeth Gaskell in Japan Yuriko Yamawaki

Reviews

Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith, eds.: The Oxford Companion to the Brontæ Shirley Foster

Lynn Alexander: Women, Work, and Representation: Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature Patricia Zakreski

Roxanne Eberle: Chastity and Transgression in Women's Writing, 1792-1897 Siv Jansson

Francesco Marroni: Disarmonie vittoriane. Rivisitazioni del canone della narrativa inglese dell'Ottocento Saverio Tomaiuolo

Liana F. Piehler: Spatial Dynamics and Female Development in Victorian Art and Novels. Creating a Woman's Space Jacqueline Yallop

Tow new editions of Gaskell: Elizabeth Gaskell, Lois the Witch, foreword by Jenny Uglow, and Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, ed. Patricia Ingham Elizabeth Williams

Reports

The Gaskell Society Conference, 2003 Mary Haynes Kuhlman
Activities in the North West Elizabeth Williams
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The Gaskell Society of Japan Yuriko Yamawaki
The Society's Year Janet Allan
Good news about 84 Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

Notes on Contributors
Index
Offices and Committee Members 2004-5


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 17 (2003)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

Articles

Liam Corley
The imperial addiction of Mary Barton

Louise Henson
History, science and social change: Elizabeth Gaskell's 'evolutionary' narratives

Lorna Huett
Commodity and collectivity: Cranford in the context of Household Words

Mitsuharu Matsuoka
Gaskell's strategies of silence in 'The Half Brothers'

Tonya Moutray McArthur
Unwed orders: religious communities for women in the works of Elizabeth Gaskell

Alan Shelston
From Cranford to The Country of the Pointed Firs: Elizabeth Gaskell's American publication and the work of Sarah Orne Jewett

Larry K. Uffelman
From 'Martha Preston' to 'Half a Life-Time Ago': Elizabeth Gaskell rewrites a story

Notes

Gaskell scholars re-discovered: (2) Aina Rubenius Gunnel Melchers

Professor Francesco Marroni Alan Shelston

Bibliographical Notes

Reviews

Chiseki Asahi, ed.: Gaskell Shosetsu no Tabi (A Journey Through Gaskell's Novels) Harumi James

Josie Billington: Faithful Realism: Elizabeth Gaskell and Leo Tolstoy Shirley Goster

Eddie Cass and Morris Garratt, eds.: Printing and the Book in Manchester 1700-1850 Alan Shelston

Alisa Clapp-Itnyre: Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel C. M. Jackson-Houlston

Shirley Foster: Elizabeth Gaskell: A Literary Life Jenny Uglow

Jonathan H. Crossman: The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel Robert Barnard

John Law (Margaret Harkness): A Manchester Shirtmaker Alan Shelston

Barbara Todd: Harriet Martineau at Ambleside Valerie Sanders

Obituary

Arthur Pollard John Chapple

Reports

The Society's Year Janet Allan
Activities in the North West Elizabeth Williams
The London and South-East Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The Gaskell Society of Japan Yuriko Yamawaki
A Gaskel Society Branch in North America? Lucy Magruder

Notes on Contributors
Index
Offices and Committee Members 2003-4


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 16 (2002)

CONTENTS

Abbreviations
Bibliographical note
Editorial

Articles

Ian Campbell
Seen in passing?

Mary Debrabant
Birds, bees and Darwinian survival strategies in Wives and Daughters

Louise Henson
The 'Condition-of-England' debate and the 'Natural History of Man': an important scientific context for the social-problem fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell

Jo Pryke
The view from America: Annette Hopkins and Elizabeth Gaskell

Valerie Sanders
Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell

Shu Chuan Yan
Geography and working-class women in Mary Barton and Sylvia's Lovers

Anita C. Wilson
Elizabeth Gaskell's subversive icon: motherhood and childhood in Ruth

Reviews

Richard Gravil, ed. Master Narratives: Tellers and Telling in the English Novel Irene Wiltshire

Mitsuharu Matsuoka, ed. The World of Gaskell. A Many-faceted Attack on Victorian Society Hisako Nagase

Lucasta Miller. The Brontë Myth Robert Barnard

Barbara Onslow. Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain Judith Johnston

Joanne Shattock, ed. Women and Literature in Britain 1800-1900 Rosamund A. Paice

James Turner. The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton Alan Shelston

Reports

The Society's Year Janet Allan
The Gaskell Society Conference 17-20 August 2001
Activities in the North West Janet Allan
The London and South-East Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The Gaskell Society of Japan Yuriko Yamawaki
Plymouth Grove: a progress report Janet Allan

Notes on Contributors
Offices and Committee Members 2002-3
Index to Volumes 1-16


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 15 (2001)

CONTENTS

Abbreviations
Bibliographical note
Editorial

Articles

Kay Millard
The religion of Elizabeth Gaskell

Tatsuhiro Onho
Is Mary Barton an industrial novel?

Larry K. Uffelman
From serial to novel: Elizabeth Gaskell assembles Round the Sofa

Frances Twinn
Navigational pitfalls and topographical constraints in Sylvia's Lovers

Alan Shelston
Alligators infesting the stream: Elizabeth Gaskell and the USA

Notes

Gaskell scholars re-discovered: (1) Annette B. Hopkins Jo Pryke
Mrs Gaskell and France: a postscript Philip Yarrow

Reviews

John Chapple and Alan Shelston (eds): Further letters of Mrs Gaskell Margaret Smith

Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund: Victorian publishing and Mrs Gaskell's work Alan Shelston

Mary Lenard: Preaching pity: Dickens, Gaskell, and sentimentalism in Victorian culture Margaret Darby

Francesco Marroni: Silverdale Renzo D'Agnillo

Mitsu Matsuoka, ed. and trans.: A collection of Gaskell short stories Tatsuhiro Ohno

Linda H. Peterson: Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography: The poetics and politics of life writing Siv Janssen
Cecily O'Neill: Ruth, adapted as a play script, with resource material Rosemary Marshall

Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton, ed. Jennifer Foster (Broadview Literary Texts) Elizabeth Williams

A note on the new Everyman paperback edition of Ruth Jo Pryke

Reports

The Society's Year, 2000 Janet Allan
The Gaskell Society Belgian Tour, May 2000 Jean Alson
The London and South-East Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The Gaskell Society of Japan Yuriko Yamawaki
Gaskell Studies in Italy Anna Enrichetta Soccio
'This Bustling Life': The every-day story of Elizabeth Gaskell, a lady novelist An exhibition at the Special Collections Division of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 2000 Fran Baker
Plymouth Grove: a progress report Janet Allan

Notes on Contributors
Offices and Committee Members


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 14 (2000)

CONTENTS

Abbreviations
Bibliographical note
Editorial

Articles

Marie Fitzwilliam (PDF)
The needle not the pen: Fabric (auto)biography in Cranford, Ruth, and Wives and Daughters

Shirley Foster (PDF)
'We sit and read and dream our time away': Elizabeth Gaskell and the Portico Library

Linda K Hughes and Michael Lund (PDF)
Becoming Mrs Gaskell

Mary Kuhlman (PDF)
Gaskell Studies and the Internet in 1999

Andrew Sanders
Serialising Gaskell: from Household Words to The Cornhill

Joanne Shattock (PDF)
Women's Work: Victorian women workers and the press

Larry K. Uffelman (PDF)
Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: the novel in progress

Patsy Stoneman (PDF)
Wives and Daughters on television

Notes

The relevance of Gaskell for Japanese readers Chiyuki Kanamaru (PDF)

Round the software: post, nostalgia and post-nostalgia on the Gaskell discussion list David Kellog (PDF)

Reviews

Barbara Leah Harman: The feminine political novel in Victorian England Sally Ledger

C. M. Jackson-Houlston: Ballads, songs and snatches: The appropriation of folk song and popular culture in British nineteenth-century realist prose Ruth McDowell Cook

Walter Smith: Elizabeth Gaskell: a bibliographical catalogue Alan Shelston

K. D. M. Snell (ed): The regional novel in Britain and Ireland 1880-1990 Alan Shelston

Susan Zlotnick: Women, writing and the industrial revolution Josephine M. Guy

Reports

The Society's Year, 1999 Janet Allan
The London Conference Val Salisbury
The London and South-East Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The Gaskell Society of Japan Yuriko Yamawaki
Gaskell Studies in Italy Mariaconcetta Costantini
84 Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

Notes on Contributors
Offices and Committee Members


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 13 (1999)

CONTENTS

Abbreviations
Bibliographical note
Editorial 'Globalising Gaskell'

Articles

Josie Billington
Faithful realism: Ruskin and Gaskell

Alain Jumeau
Elizabeth Gaskell on French literary ladies of the seventeenth century: Madame de Sablé and Madame de Sévigné

Mary Kuhlman (PDF)
A survey of Gaskell scholarship, or: Things written recently about Gaskell

Margaret Lesser
Madame Mohl and Mrs Gaskell

Pam Parker
'The Power of Giving': Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth and the politics of benevolence

Jo Pryke (PDF)
Wales and the Welsh in Gaskell's Fiction: sex, sorrow and sense

Terry Wyke
The culture of self improvement: real people in Mary Barton

Notes

North and South: East or West? Fang Li (PDF)

Sylvia's Lovers: a translator's note Tatsuhiro Ohno

The death of Willy Gaskell Dewi Williams

Elizabeth Gaskell' correspondence: A supplementary edition John Chapple and Alan Shelston

Gaskell studies in France Caroline Arnaud

Our links with French Gaskell scholars Peter Skrine

Articles published in Gaskell Society Journal, Vols 1-13 Mitsuharu Matsuoka

Reviews

Deirdre d'Albertis: Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text Liz Hedgecock

Megan Perigoe-Stitt: Metaphors of Change in the Language of Nineteenth Century Fiction: Scott, Gaskell and Kingsley Liz Hedgecock

Stephen Gill: Wordsworth and the Victorians Alan Shelston

Josephine M Guy (ed): The Victorian Age: An Anthology of sources and documents Alan Shelston

Deborah Anna Logan: Fallenness in Victorian Women's Writing Shirley Foster

Harriet Devine Jump (ed): Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women: A Routledge Anthology Jackie Pearson

Tatsuhiro Ohno: Sylvia's Lovers translated into Japanese Harumi James

Reports

The Society's Year, 1998 Joan Leach
The Gaskell Society Paris Trip Christine Bhatt
The London and South East Group Dudley Barlow
The Gaskell Society of Japan Dr Yuriko Yamawaki
Gaskell Studies in Italy
South West of England Group
84 Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

Notes on Contributors
Offices and Committee Members


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 12 (1998)

CONTENTS

Abbreviations and Bibliographical note
Editorial
84 Plymouth Grove
Letters of Mrs Gaskell volume 2

Articles

Peter Skrine
Eizabeth Gaskell and her German Stories

Peter Stiles
Calvin's encounter with Cinderella: vital antinomies in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Curious, If True' (1860)

Janice K Kirkland
'Curious, If True': suggesting more

Marie Fitzwilliam
Mr Harrison's Confessions: a study of the general practitioner's social and professional dis-ease

Valerie Smith
Fact or fiction, the acid test: Gaskell, Mary Barton and the vitriol

Suzy Clarkson Holstein
In harm's way: tolerating intolerance in Elizabeth Gaskell's fiction

Notes

Four states of the printed endpapers in Mrs Gaskell's Ruth Walter E Smith

Six Weeks in Heppenheim as seen from Heppenheim, edited and translated by Celia Skrine

Reviews

Gaskell in German: some new translations: Sechs Wochen in Heppenheim; Erzahlungen; Frauen und Tochter Peter Skrine

John Chapple Elizabeth Gaskell the Early Years Andrew Sanders

Patsy Stoneman Bronte Transformations: the cultural dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights Shirley Foster

Elizabeth Gaskell The Lift of Charlotte Bronte and Ruth, both edited by Angus Easson; Donald Hawes Who's Who in Dickens Alan Shelston

Reports

The Society's year Alison Foster
London and South-East Group Dudley Barlow
Gaskell studies in Italy Mariaconcetta Costantini
Gaskell Society of Japan in 1997 Dr Yuriko Yamawaki
Gaskell Society Chester conference Mary Kuhlman
In the footsteps of Elizabeth Gaskell in Germany 6-12 May 1997 Peter and Celia Skrine

Notes on Contributors
Offices and Committee Members


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 11 (1997)

CONTENTS


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 10 (1996)

CONTENTS


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 9 (1995)

CONTENTS

    Bibliographical Note
    Editor's Notes and News

  • Marianne McLeod Gilchrist
    The Shaw family of Staten Island: Elizabeth Gaskell's American friends
  • Mary Waters
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Conduct Books: Mrs Gibson as the product of a conventional education in Wives and Daughters
  • William J Hyde
    'Poor Frederick' and 'Poor Peter': Elizabeth Gaskell's fraternal deviants
  • Deborah A Logan
    'An unfit subject for fiction': Elizabeth Gaskell and the duty of silence
  • Marion Shaw
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Tennyson and the fatal return: Sylvia's Lovers and Enoch Arden
  • Wendy Craik
    'Man, vain man' in Susan Ferrier, Margaret Oliphant and Elizabeth Gaskell

    Notes and Commentary
    London reports
    Reviews
    Notes on Contributors


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 8 (1994)

CONTENTS

    Bibliographical Note
    Editor's Notes and News

  • Anna Unsworth
    Elizabeth Gaskell and German Romanticism
  • Marie Fitzwilliam
    The politics behind the angel: separate spheres in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lizzie Leigh
  • Harumi James
    Secrecy in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cousin Phillis
  • J A V Chapple
    William Stevenson and the Edinburgh literary scene
  • Christine Alexander
    Readers and writers: Blackwood's and the Brontës
  • Douglas S Mack
    James Hogg, Elizabeth Gaskell and the tradition of oral storytelling
  • David Finkelstein
    Early nineteenth-century Scottish publishing
  • Rosalind Slater
    The novelist's use of dialect
  • Ian Campbell
    Scottish writers and the Industrial Revolution

    Notes and Commentary
    Reviews
    A Presidential Perspective (J G Sharps)
    The Gaskell Year (Joan Leach)
    In Memoriam
    Notes on Contributors


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 7 (1993)

CONTENTS

    Bibliographical Note
    Editor's Notes and News

  • Jeanette Eve
    The Floral and Horticultural in Elizabeth Gaskell's Novels
  • Philip Yarrow
    Mrs Gaskell and France
  • Peter Skrine
    Mrs Gaskell and Germany
  • Kristine Swenson
    Protection or Restriction? Women's Labour in Mary Barton
  • Anita C. Wilson
    Mother and Writer: A Study of Elizabeth Gaskell's Diary

    Reviews
    Notes on Contributors


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 6 (1992)

CONTENTS

    Bibliographical Note
    Editor's Notes and News

  • Arthur Pollard
    Elizabeth Gaskell's young women
  • Andrew Sanders
    Varieties of Religious Experience in Sylvia's Lovers
  • Michael Wheeler
    Elizabeth Gaskell and Unitarianism
  • K. J. Fielding
    The Sceptical Carlyles and the Unitarian Mrs Gaskell
  • Peter Stiles
    Grace, Redemption and the 'Fallen Woman': Ruth and Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • J A V Chapple
    Two Unpublished Gaskell Letters from Burrow Hall, Lancashire
  • Eva Ahsberg Borromeo
    Maria Edgeworth, Fredrika Bremer and Elizabeth Gaskell: Sources for Wives and Daughters

    Janet Allan: The Scarborough Conference: 1991
    Notes on Contributors


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 5 (1991)

CONTENTS

    Notes on Contributors
    Editor's Notes and News

  • Edward Chitham
    Elizabeth Stevenson's Schooldays
  • Brenda Colloms
    "Tottie" Fox, Her Life and Background
  • Barbara Brill and Alan Shelston
    Manchester: 'A Behindhand Place for Books': The Gaskells and the Portico Library
  • Thomas E Recchio
    A Victorian Version of the Fall: Mrs Gaskell's Cousin Phillis and the Domestication of Myth
  • Anna Unsworth
    Some Social Themes in Wives and Daughters: (2) The Social Values of the 1860s and 'Old England' Compared
  • P J Yarrow
    Mrs Gaskell and Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Jeanette Eve
    Elizabeth Stevenson and Harriet Carr: A Note
  • Alison Foster

    A Personal View of the First Joint Brontë/Gaskell Conference
    Reviews and Notices


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 4 (1990)


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 3 (1989)

CONTENTS


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 2 (1988)

CONTENTS

    Notes on Contributors
    Editorial

  • Jane Spencer
    Mary Barton and Thomas Carlyle
  • Wendy Craik
    Lore, Learning and Wisdom: Workers and Education in Mary Barton and North and South
  • Enid Duthie
    Echoes of the French Revolution in the Work of Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Alan Shelston
    The Moorland Cottage: Elizabeth Gaskell and Myles Birket Foster
  • Christine Lingard
    The Gaskell Collection in Manchester Central Library
  • Thomas Recchio
    The Pinkerton and the Jenkyns Sisters: A Literary Source for Cranford
  • Patsy Stoneman
    Elizabeth Gaskell and 'Maternal Thinking'

    Annual General Meeting, 1987

    • Francesco Marroni: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Art of the Novel
    • Yuriko Yamawaki: Gaskell Studies in Japan
    Recent Publications


The Gaskell Society Journal
Volume 1 (1987)

CONTENTS

    Notes on Contributors
    Editorial

  • J A V Chapple
    William Stevenson and Elizabeths Gaskell
  • Thomas Recchio
    Cranford and the 'lawe of kynde'
  • P M Yarrow
    The Chronology of Cranford
  • Barbara Brill
    My year Mr. Norton
  • Francesco Marroni
    Gaskell Studies in Italy
  • Bill Ruddick
    George Du Maurier: Illustrator and Interpreter of Mrs. Gaskell

    Recent Publication

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