• Editor's Letter (Helen Smith)
• The Gaskell Society Conference, 17-20 July, Cober Hill, near Scarborough (Helen Smith)
• A Post-Conference Note (Pat and Harry Ellis)
• Lair (Edwin Stockdale)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and the Medical World (J H Ross)
• Marianne (Christine Lingard)
• Murder in Mrs Gaskell Country, Hyde, Cheshire 1831 (J P Lethbridge)
• Gaskell and Sand: two Unlikely Soulmates (John Greenwood)
• Gaskelliana for the Twenty-First Century (Fran Baker)
• A message received on 8 May 2015 (Christine Grocott and Judith Bottriell)
• Time for Some Light Relief: 'Gaskell' on the Silver Screen (Christie Lingard)
• The AGM and Literary Weekend of the ALS 30 May 2015 (Janet Kennerley)
• Forthcoming Events
• Autumn General Meeting
• Annual General Meeting 2016
• North-West Group
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• London and South-East Group
• Sesquicentennial Events

• Editor�fs Letter (Helen Smith)
• Charitable Works (Doreen Pleydell)
• Domestic Medicine: with some notes about Mercury Treatment (Angus Easson)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Thurstan Holland ? another Liverpool connection (A. J. Larner)
• Victorian Women Novelists, Gossip and Creativity (Brenda McKay)
• The Gaskell Broadwood Piano of 1853 (Tim Austin)
• Marianne and her family in Worcestershire (Jean Alston)
• Italy in the Footsteps of Elizabeth Gaskell (Christine Bhatt)
• North and South: an Experience (Helen Shay)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Book Review (Helen Smith)
• Forthcoming Events
• Gaskell Society AGM 2015
• Autumn General Meeting
• North-West Group
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• London and South-East Group
• Alliance of Literary Societies AGM 2015

• Editor�fs Letter (Helen Smith)
• Primitive, Cheap and Bracing: the Gaskells in the Alps (Christine Lingard)
• Corrections (Edwin Stockdale)
• Railways: the Naming of the Train (Alan Shelston)
• John Geoffrey Sharps (Heather Sharps)
• The Murillo Trail of �eWoman Drinking�f (Pat Barnard)
• A Very Modern Marriage (Ann Brooks and Bryan Haworth)
• In Praise of the Independent Singleton (John Greenwood)
• F.E. Bache: a Brief Life (John Chapple)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Henry James (Alan Shelston)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Gaskell Study Tour to Worcester , Bromyard and surrounding areas ? 20 to 22 May 2014 (Jean Alston)
• A Note of Thanks (Rosemary Donaldson)
• Alliance of Literary Societies AGM 2014 (Janet Allan)
• A Week-end with Mrs Gaskell and Mr Dickens: 12-14 September 2014
• Forthcoming Society Events
• Autumn Meeting
• North-West Group
• Annual General Meeting 2015
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• London and South-East Group

• Editor�fs Letter (Helen Smith)
• Asya and Phillis: Comparisons and Contradictions (Ian M. Emberson)
• Gaskellians (Rosemary Donaldson)
• The Power of Fiction (Doreen Pleydell)
• To Tuscany with Murray (Christine Lingard)
• Nineteenth-Century Education: Parity for the Sexes? (Angus Easson)
• Ruth and the Governess Question (Elizabeth Williams)
• Lionizing Elizabeth Gaskell: The Gaskell Journal goes On-line (Nancy Weyant)
• Who was Louy Jackson? (Jenny Keaveney)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Thomas Glover (Pauline Kiggins)
• A Distant Connection (Pam Griffiths)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Alliance of Literary Societies AGM 2014
• Forthcoming Events
• Annual General Meeting
• Autumn Meeting
• North-West Group
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• London and South-East Group

• Editor's Letter (Helen Smith)
• Joan Leach Memorial Essay Prize
• The Gaskell Society Conference 19-22 July, Stratford Manor Hotel, near Stradford-upon-Avon (Helen Smith)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Shawls: Creative Artistry and Identity (Alison Lundie)
• The Seamstress (Christine Lingard)
• The Connection between Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Eliot Norton and Autumn Leaves by John Everett Millais (Pat Barnard)
• 'Such a life': Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronë (Patsy Stoneman)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Honorë de Balzac (John Greenwood)
• 'Trawling Private Accounts out to the Public Gaze': Answers and Problems (Angus Easson)
• The Uncertainty of Endings (Alan Shelston)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Keeping in Touch (Jean M Layton)
• Idyll and Reality: a Weekend with George Eliot, 13-15 September 2013
• Autumn General Meeting
• North-West Group
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• London and South-East Branch

• Editor's Letter (Helen Smith)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Food (Shirley Foster)
• George Richmond 1809-1896 and his portrait of Elizabeth Gaskell (Pat Barnard)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot: siblings spoilt cream-jugs, torn dresses, farm labourers, the judgment of Solomon, and the outward gaze (Barbara Hardy)
• Margaret Emily Gaskell (Ann O'Brien)
• Belonging (Doreen Pieydell)
• Former President Professor JAV Chapple remembers. . .
• A Tale of Two Elizabeths
• Mrs Charles Holland (From the Inquirer 2 Apl 1892)
• Gaskell study tour to Boston, September 2012 (Christine Bhatt)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Rome (Robin Allan)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• The Gaskells' House Report (Janet Allan)
• Annual General Meeting 2013
• Autumn General Meeting
• North-West Group
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• London and South-East Branch

• Editor's Letter (Helen Smith)
• Presidential Address (Shirley Foster)
• An Appreciation of Alan, now Former President (Elizabeth Williams)
• Mary Syner: A Personal Tribute (Alan Shelston)
• Life before the Gaskell Society (Doreen Pleydell)
• 'That Unfrequented Stone Hall': Elizabeth Gaskell and Tabley Old Hall (Sarah Webb)
• Mrs Gaskell, Haunts, Homes and Stories (Ellis H. Chadwick, Isaak Pitman and Sons)
• London Looks at Charlotte and Elizabeth: "The Life of Charlotte Brontë" - A Reading Day (Katharine Solomon)
• The Two Elizabeths (Alan Shelston)
• What a Single Word Can Do (Alan Shelston)
• A Brief Account of Illustrated Editions of Elizabeth Gaskell's Works (Emma Marigliano)
• Casa Guidi, Florence (Pauline Kiggins)
• Away from It All (Christine Lingard)
• Gaskell - Nightingale Tour, 30 May, 2012 (Jean Alston)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Alliance of Literary Societies AGM Weekend, 12-13 May 2012 (Lynda Stephens)
• Exciting News from 84 Plymouth Grove (Janet Allan)
• Forthcoming Events
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• London and South-East Branch
• Academy Service

• Editor's Letter (Helen Smith)
• Dickens Bicentenary (Alan Shelston)
• A Gynaecologist Looks at Mrs Gaskell (James Drife)
• Uncle Peter and Cousin Henry (Craig Thornber)
• Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer (Pat Barnard)
• Death in Leamington Spa? (Christine Lingard)
• Controversy at Cross Street: Was George Eliot Guilty of Plagiarism? (Shirley Foster)
• Moorland Cottage (Jo Pryke)
• Maria Andreanszky 1910-2011 (Stella Luce)
• Visit to Warrington 28 September 2011 (Philip Morey)
• Gaskell 20 Questions Quiz: The Answers
• Greenheys Opening Event (Helen Smith)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• The Gaskells' House Report (Janet Allan)
• Alliance of Literary Societies
• Forthcoming Events
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• London and South-East Group
• The North-West Group

• Gaskell 20 Questions Quiz
• Editor's Letter (Helen Smith)
• Thoughts of Chairman Ann (Ann O'Brien)
• Gaskell Society Conference 2011 (Janet Cunliffe-Jones)
• Beau Geste
• With Gaskell in Naples (Alan Shelston)
• Cranford in Crewe (Helen Smith)
• Elizabeth Rosemary Trevor Dabbs: 8 July 1922 - 28th September 2010 (Sarah Prince)
• Elizabeth Gaskell's Encounters with the Internet Technology of the 21st Century (Nancy S. Weyant)
• A Dear Good Valuable Friend (Christine Lingard)
• Two Encounters with ECG (Doreen Pleydell)
• Happy 20th Birthday! (Fran Twinn)
• Thank You (Elizabeth Williams)
• Friends of Plymouth Grove: Update (Janet Allan)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Alliance of Literary Societies AGM 2011 (Lynda Stephens)
• Summer Evening Meetings of The Gaskell Society in Knutsford (Janet Kennerley)
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• London and South-East Group
• The North-West Group

• Editor's Letter (Helen Smith)
• Joan Leach: Our Honorary Secretary from 1985-2010 (Elizabeth Williams; Rev Jean Bradley: Katharine Solomon: Janie Briggs; Pam Griffiths: Dudley Green; Shirley Foster; Christine Bhatt; Pat Heath; Masuko Adachi)
• Una Box, who died 14 November, 2010, aged 71 years (Jean Alston)
• A Glimpse into the Preparations for the Memorialisation of Elizabeth Gaskell in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey on 25 September 2010 (Ann Waddington)
• London Weekend, 24-26 September 2010
• Can you Help?
• Corrigenda to Autumn Newsletter 2010
• Friends of Plymouth Grove: Update
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• The Alliance of Literary Societies (Janet Kennerley)
• The Autumn General Meeting 2011
• North West Group
• Yorkshire Group 2011
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• The London and South-East Group
• Autumn Meeting

• Joan Leach (Janet Allan)
• "Such Happy Days As My Schooldays Were": Elizabeth Gaskell and Warwickshire (Elizabeth M. Cox)
• Archibald Stanton Whitfield 1899-1974 (Phillip Ray)
• Alliance of Literary Societies (Helen D. Newman)
• Conference, 2011
• An Italian Bicentenary Event
• Brief Lives: Elizabeth Gaskell
• Gaskell Collection, Manchester Central Library
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Beyond the Bonnets!
• Autumn Bicentenary Events
• A Report from Plymouth Grove
• Lottery Development Grant Awarded
• Improvements to the Groud Floor
• 2010 Events
• Meetings at Cross Street Chapel, Manchester
• North West Group
• London and South East Group
• South-West Group
• Yorkshire Branch

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• Elizabeth Gaskell's London (Christine Lingard)
• A Tale of Two Celebrations: Elizabeth Gaskell and Lev Tolstoy (Katherine Jane Briggs)
• Vernon Lushington: Mrs Gaskell's 'Cousin'
• The Death of Elizabeth Gaskell reported
• Exciting times ahead at Brook Street Chapel
• Emily White 1925-2010
• The Alliance of Literary Societies (Kenn Oultram)
• Gaskell Study Day at Sheffield
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• A Report on progress at Plymouth Grove (Janet Allan)
• North West Group
• London and South-East Group
• South-West Group
• Yorkshire Group

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• Elizabeth Gaskell 2010 (Alan Shelston)
• Elizabeth Gaskell's Paternal Grandparents (John Chapple)
• Charles Allen Du Val/C A Duval: Artist & Photographer, 1803-1872 (Nicky Clark)
• The Death of Elizabeth Gaskell (John Ross)
• Photos in Geneva (Time Austin)
• Pregress at 84 Plymouth Grove (Janet Allen)
• The 2009 AGM/Weekend of the Alliance of Literary Societies (Nanet Kennerley)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Brussels Brontë Group: Annual Brontë Weekend
• North West Group
• London and South-East Group
• Yorkshire Group
• South-West Group
• Gaskell Bicentenary Year 2010

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• Gaskell and the Theatre (Christine Lingard)
• A Newly-Discovered Letter of Introduction Returns to England (Nancy S. Weyant)
• Skelwith (Christine Lingard)
• A Model for Lady Ludlow (Joan Leach)
• Friends of Plymouth Grove (Ann O'Brien)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• AGM Meeting
• North West Group
• London and South-East Group
• South West Group
• Yorkshire Branch Group
• Alliance of Literary Societies News
• New Member Societies
• AGM and Literary Weekend

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• Papers of the Green & Jamison Families (Fran Baker)
• Notes from the Exhibition: Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on (Ann O'Brien)
• The Recollections of a Victorian Gentlewoman (Marie Moss)
• Tour in Scottish Lowlands, 7-11 July, 2008 (Jean Alston)
• Friends of Plymouth Grove (Ann O'Brien)
• The 2008 AGM of the Alliance of Literary Societies (Janet Kennerley)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Autumn General Meeting
• London and South-East Group
• Yorkshire Group
• North West Group
• The Gaskell Society South-West

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• Mary Holland and Anne Marsh Caldwell (John Chapple)
• The BBC and "Cranford" (Malcolm Pittock)
• Gaskell and Music (Christine Lingard)
• The Green Letters (Joan Leach)
• A Transatlantic Friendship: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Eliot Norton (Elizabeth Schlenther with Boyd Schlenther)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Friends of Plymouth Grove
• The Alliance of Literary Societies
• North West Group
• Yorkshire Branch
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• The London and South-East Group

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• The Papers of J. G. Sharps (Fran Baker)
• Visit to Bamford country 9th June, 2007 (Adrienne Stennett)
• A letter from Bamford, probably to William Gaskell (Robert Poole)
• The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition (Ann O'Brien)
• Elizabeth Gaskell's Guests To The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition
• Mary Barton as a school prize
• Report from Plymouth Grove (Ann O'Brien)
• The 2007 AGM of The Alliance of Literary Societies (Janet Kennerley)
• The BBC and Cranford
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• North West Branch
• London and South East Branch
• South-West Branch
• Yorkshire Branch

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• John Geoffrey Sharps (Heather Sharps)
• Gabibaldi at Caprera (Alan Shelston)
• The Gaskell Society Visit to Rome, 18 September - 24 September 2006 (Peter Skrine)
• Antonio Gallenga (Christine Lingard)
• The Sorrows of Young Philip (Ian M. Emberson)
• 84 Plymouth Grove
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Manchester Regional History Review (Joan Leach)
• London and South East Group
• North West Group
• The Yorkshire Branch of the Society
• South-West Branch

No. 42 (Autumn 2006)

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• My Visit to Japan (Joan Leach)
• Visit to Ashbourne, Alstonefield and the Hope House Costume Museum, 5th July 2006 (Jean Alston)
• Cranford Houses (Joan Leach)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Mrs Gaskell and the OED (Part 2) (Christine Lingard)
• Visit to Plymouth Grove on Monday 5 June 2006 by Members of The Bronté Society (Coreen Turner)
• Recent Events at Plymouth Grove (Ann Waddington)
• The Next Gaskell Conference (23-30 July 2007)
• Society Events in the North-West
• North-West Group
• The Yorkshire Branch of the Society
• London and South-East Group
• South West Group
• Autumn Meeting

No. 41 (Spring 2006)

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• John Geoffrey Sharps (1936-2006) and Gaskell Studies (John A. V. Chapple)
• Memories and Tributes to John Geoffrey Sharps
• Recollections of Plymouth Grove
• Gaskell in Translation: A Summary (Christine Lingard)
• Letters Relating to The Life of Charlotte Bronté (Joan Leach)
• Gaskell Society Members at Buckingham Palace (Fran Twinn)
• Mrs Gaskell and the OED
• Sylvia's Lovers (Joan Leach)
• Two Books about the Bronté (Elizabeth Williams)
• 84 Plymouth Grove - The Gaskell House
• At Cross Street Chapel Manchester
• North-West Group
• The Yorkshire Branch of the Society
• London and South-East Group
• South West Group
• Alliance of Literary Societies
• Whitby Caedmon Literary Festival

No. 40 (Autumn 2005)

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• The Cober Hill Conspiracy
• Manchester Conference Reviewed (Alan Shelston)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Dickens in All the Year Round (Deborah Wynne)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and the Isle of Man (Peter Skrine)
• John Ashton Nicholls in Boston (John Chapple)
• The Alliance of Literary Societies
• A Forgotten Wedding Custom and Jane Eyre (Ian M Emberson)
• The Lake District in the Footsteps of Elizabeth Gaskell (Mary Clark)
• Plymouth Grove
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Annual Supplement to Elizabeth Gaskell: An Annotated Guide to English-Language Sources (Nancy S Weyant)
• The Yorkshire Branch of The Gaskell Society
• North-West Group Programme
• The South-West Group
• London and South-East Group
• Invitation to Carlyle Society Meeting in Edinburgh on 24th September
• Mary Barton: The Opera

No. 39 (Spring 2005)

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• Scientists in Wives and Daughters (Christine Lingard)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Dickens in All the Year Round (Deborah Wynne)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• North and South on BBC TV
• A Forgotten Wedding Custom (Jenny Uglow)
• A Visit to Japan (Alan Shelston)
• Lancaster Visit (Mary Clark)
• Lancaster Grand Theatre
• 84 Plymouth Grove
• General Meetings
• North West Group
• The London and South-East Group
• The South-West Group
• Group Meetings in York and Edinburth
• Residential Course on Gaskell and Bronte Theme
• The Charles Lamb Society

No. 38 (Autumn 2004)

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• Brian Hechle (Dudley Green)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Tennyson: A Footnote (Alan Shelston)
• Samuel Holland and Liverpool (Christine Lingard)
• Visit to Liverpool
• Friends of Plymouth Grove: Update
• American Members Aid to Plymouth Grove Appeal
• The Oxford Visit 23-24 June 2004: A Personal View (Marie Moss)
• Visit to Worcester and Stratford-upon-Avon 5th-8th July 2004 (Janet Kennerley)
• Book Notes (Christine Lingard)
• Victorian Literary Quiz Book (Elizabeth Williams)
• Autumn Meetings
• North West Programme
• Meetings at Cross Street Chapel, Manchester
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• The London and South-East Group
• Inaugural Scottish Meeting
• The Visual Life of Elizabeth Gaskell

No. 37 (Spring 2004)

• Editor's Letter (Joan Leach)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Tennyson (J. A. V. Chapple)
• Haworth through Unfamiliar Eyes (Frances Twinn)
• Gaskell's Works Now Searchable via New Hyper-Concordance (Nancy S. Weyant)
• Mrs Gaskell and Mrs Fergusson: A New Connection (Alan Shelston)
• A Gaskell Portrait?
• Alliance of Literary Societies AGM 24th April
• The North West Group
• The Gaskell Society Postal Bookstall
• Book Notes
• For Jane Austen Fans
• AGM Meeting at Cross Street Chapel, Manchester (3 April 2004)
• The Gaskell Society South-West
• The London and South-East Group
• Elizabeth Gaskell and Manchester (19-21 July 2005)

No. 36 (Autumn 2003) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) And What of Sylvia? (Christine Lingard) Elizabeth Gaskell and Macclesfield (Marie Moss) Editing Elizabeth Gaskell's Letters (John Chapple) Here we go Round the mulberry bush Elizabeth Gaskell and the American Civil War (Muriel Smith) Bookstall Notes Book Notes (Christine Lingard) The Literary North West - The Cross Street Chapel Talks The Gaskell Society South West London and South East Group Autumn Meeting in Knutsford at St. John's Parish Church Rooms Unitarian College Manchester 1854-2004 No. 35 (Spring 2003) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) Mrs. Gaskell and the 'Climbing Boys' (Marjorie Cox) A Note on Elizabeth Gaskell's Visit to The Mount (Marie Moss) The Frozen North: Some Links with Sylvia's Lovers (Christine Lingard) Manchester Botanist? (Jane Wilson) The Gaskell Trip to Brittany (Sheila Stephenson and Jean Hockenhull) The Alliance of Literary Societies AGM Book Notes (Christine Lingard) Gaskell Society North-West Forthcoming Events Gaskell Society South-West Forthcoming Programme Gaskell Society London and South-East No. 34 (Autumn 2002) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) Obituary: Arthur Pollard (John Chapple) Wilmots (Christine Lingard) In Pursuit of Madame de Sévigné (Muriel Smith) Good Dog Fanny and Tuft the Canary, with other Stories, all True (John Chapple) Manchester Botanists (Joan Leach) Book Notes (Christine Lingard) North West Group Forthcoming Meetings Literature Courses in the North West General Autumn Meeting: 28th September, 2002 Gaskell Society - South-West: Excursion to Penzance The London and South-East Group No. 33 (Spring 2002) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) On the Trail of Madame de Sévigné (John Chapple) The Gaskells' Shawls (Janet Allan) A Centenary Event and a Bi-Centenary Proposal (Janet Allan) HELP PLEASE! (Elizabeth Rye) Samuel Laurence 1812-1884 (Joan Leach) Caroline Holland (1835-1909) (John A. V. Chapple) Book Notes (Christine Lingard) The London and South-East Group: 2002 Programme South-West Group: Programme General Meetings in the North West No. 32 (Autumn 2001) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) 84 Plymouth Grove (Janet Allan) The Gaskell's Bequests (Janet Allan) Bellingham (Muriel Smith) Bank Street Unitarian Chapel, Bolton (Christine Lingard) The Gaskells, Popular Education & the Free Library Movement (Christine Lingard) Book Notes (Christine Lingard) South-West Group London and South East Group Knutsford and Manchester Meetings Group Visits 2001 No. 31 (March 2001) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) Tributes to Barbara Brill (Janet Allan, Alan Shelston, Irene Whiltshire, and Joan Leach) The Gaskells, Popular Education & the Free Library Movement (Christine Lingard) 'Peccavi' (Peter Skrine) Charles Perrault, Madame D'Aulnoy, and 'Curious, if True' (John Chapple) Book Notes (Christine Lingard) Alliance of Literary Societies Report Forthcoming Events Alliance of Literary Societies AGM London and South East Group No. 30 (August 2000) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) Visiting Belgium, 11th - 15th May 2000 (Jackie Horsfield) Following The Brontës in Brussels - May 2000 (Dudley Green) Travelling the literary Trail (Marie Moss) Book Notes (Christine Lingard) O'Farrell, M. A., Telling complexions: the nineteenth-century English novel and the blush (Duke University Press, £11.95) Sue Lonoff (ed. and trans.), Brontë Charlotte and Emily: The Belgian essays a critical edition (Yale University Press, 1996) Meynell, Dame Alix, What grandmother said: the life of Alice Dowson, 1844-1927 based on her diaries by her grandmother (Colt Books, £25) Jennifer Foster (ed.), Mary Barton (Broadview Literary Press, Ontario) Graham Handley (ed.), Wives and Daughters (Everyman Gaskell Series, Dent, £4.99) Literary Walk of Southwark - 19th August, 2000 Knutsford Meetings (Elizabeth Williams) Gaskell Society Southwest Group Report on Spring Activities 2000 (Rosemary Marshall) Manchester Meetings at Cross Street Chapel London and South-East Branch Barbara brill's "At Home with Elizabeth Gaskell" Tennyson and Gaskell Two Events at The British Library Progress on The Gaskell House - Plymouth Grove (Janet Allan) Stop Press No. 29 (February 2000) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) Adapting Wives and Daughters (Andrew Davies) Who was Miss Fergusson? (Jean Lindsay) Omnibus - A Diary of our Days on Location (Jean Hockenhull and Sheila Stephenson) Marianne North (Barbara Brill) Book Notes (Christine Lingard) Katherine Ann Wildt (Saint Louis University), Elizabeth Gaskell's use of color in her industrial novels and short stories (University Press of America) Alison Chapman (ed.), Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton; North and South (Icon Critical Guides, £7.99) Lancashire Dialect and the Greyt Eggshibishun (John Chapple) A Dark Night's Work at inverary Jail Membership Update South-West Group Meetings (Rosemary Marshall) Meetings at Cross Street Chapel Manchester Spring Meeting at Cross Street Chapel (Saturday 8th April) Knutsford Meetings Internet News Knutsford Literature Festival 2000 London and South East Group No. 28 (August 1999) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) The Gaskell Society Conference: The London Experience, 23 July - 26 July 1999 (Maureen Horner and Barbara Miller) William Gaskell and the Pressures of Work (Alan Shelston) Gaskell Society South West Group: Report of Meeting on 6 May 1999 Book Notes (Christine Lingard) Patrick Brantlinger, The Reading Lesson: the threat of mass literacy in nineteenth century British fiction (Bloomington and Indanapolis: Indiana University Press, £15.99) John Gross (ed.), The New Oxford Book of English Prose (Oxford University Press, £25.00) Charlotte Mitchell and Caroline Clive, Victorian fiction research guide 28 (University of Queensland) Links in a Chain that Connect Elizabeth Gaskell with Marianne North (Barbara Brill) South of England Branch Paper Proposals are Invited for the 2000 meeting of the Research Society of Victorian Periodicals, "Victorian Encounters: Editors and Readers", to be held in London on 20-22 July 2000. No. 27 (February 1999) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) Gawthorpe Hall Exhibition: Brontë-Gaskell-Kay-Shuttleworth (Heather Sharps) Elizabeth Gaskell à Paris (Peter Skrine) In The Footsteps of Elizabeth Gaskel - PARIS: 17-22 September 1998 (Dudley Green) The Tenth Annual Gaskell Society Meeting in Tokyo: From a Speaker's Viewpoint (Andrew Sanders) South West of England Branch Report (Rosemary Marshall) A (not) Imaginary Conversation Between a 'Lady of Quality' & Mrs Gaskell (John Chapple) Book Notes (Christine Lingard) John Pack, War, the Army and Victorian Literature (Macmillan, £42.50) Tim Dolin, Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel (Ashgate, £37.25) Anne Hogan and Andrew Bradstock (ed.), Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the Angel in the House (Macmillan, £42.50) Harriet Devine Jump (ed.), Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women (Routledge, £14.99) Olga Kenyon, Women's Voices: Their Lives and Loves Through Two Thousand Years of Letters (Constable, £18.95) Graham Storey, Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens Vol.10, 1862-1864 (Clarendon Press, £65) Megan Perigoe, Metaphors of Change in the Language of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Scott, Gaskell and Kingsley (Clarendon Press, £35) Preliminary Notice South of England Branch 1999 Programme GL.328 to George Smith, Dec 29 1856. No. 26 (August 1998) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) Gawthorpe Hall and the Gaskell Connection (Heather Sharps) Membership Renewals Thoughts about the Brontës (Bernard C Mayston) 'Curious, if True': Le Petit Poucet and Tom Thumb. A Case of Mistaken Identity? (Irene Wiltshire) The Gaskell Society of Japan Book Notes (Christine Lingard) Suzanne Keen, Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (Cambridge UP) Elisabeth Jay (ed.), The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Penguin) Deirdre D'Albertis, Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text (Macmillan) Megan Perigoe Stitt, Metaphors of Change in the Language of Nineteenth Century Fiction (Scott) Stephen Harbottle, Reverend William Turner: Dissent and Reform in Georgian Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Northern Universities Press) Pamela Hirsh, Barbara Bodichon: A Life (Chatto and Windus) French Translations of Gaskell (Christine Lingard) Cross Street Chapel (Joan Leach) Circular Notes (Muriel Smith) Alliance of Literary Societies AGM (Kenn Outram) The Gaskell Society's Monthly Meetings London and South East Group No. 25 (March 1998) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) Sylvia's lovers: The First Japanese Translation (Tatsuhiro Ohno) Elizabeth and William Gaskell's Honeymoon in Aber, September 1832 (Jean Lindsay) Elizabeth Gaskell's First Music Book (J A V Chapple) Charades and Amateur Theatricals (Barbara Brill) Book Notes (Christine Lingard) Robin B Colby, "Some appointed work to do": women and vocation in the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell (Greenwood Press) J B Bullen (ed.), Writing and Victorianism Juliet Barker (ed.), The Brontë: a life in letters (Viking) Membership Renewals No. 24 (September 1997) Editor's Letter (Joan Leach) "The Well of Penmorfa" (Dewi Williams) Notes on The Moorland Cottage and Other Stories, World's Classics p/b edn 1995 (Muriel Smith) The Recording of Mrs Gaskell's North & South, BBC Radio 4 (Delia Corrie) Cross Street Chapel (Geoffrey Head, Chairman of Trustees) Book Notes (Christine Lingard) Josephine Guy, The Victorian Social-problem Novel; the Market, the Individual and the Communal (1996) Cecil Y. 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