Please join me every other Friday as we review news and blog posts related to the author Elizabeth Gaskell. Gaskell Blog I’m hosting a Gaskell Reading Challenge, it will be from January to June of 2011, and hope you will consider joining. Gaskell’s genius for writing lies how she weaves the subtleties of emotions and…
Tag: The Cranford Companion
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University of Puget Sound will be hosting Examining the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell by Dr. Priti Joshi, on November 17 at 3:00pm in the Tudor-styled Franke Tobey Jones building. Admission is free of charge. My areas of interests in the period [19th century] are: industrialism, gender, and empire; travel and colonialism; filth and disease; feminism…
Gaskell Friday News & Web Round Up
Book Release The Cranford Companion was released October 4th (UK) and 26th (US). It’s written by Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin, the producers of television series adaptation Cranford as well as Wives and Daughters. “In this glorious book, Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin explain how Elizabeth Gaskell’s timeless stories were interwoven to create their dramatisation; then,…
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