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Comment8 ， contributioDS and suggestions welcomed by the 恕X 宝OR: Mrs J. Lea ch ， Far Yew Tree .House ， OVer OVer Tabley ，Knutsford ，Che~hire 砥晶 16 鑑賞 離 AllC 麗 19.' NO.I Telephone: Telephone: 0565 4668 EDITCR'S LETTER

工 have only 工'ecent 工y realised hoVJ many literarγsocieties there are and what exce 工工 ent 工iterature many of them produce~ so 工 am rather nervous about venturing into print as editor of this ，the first Gaskel 工 Society Newsletter 。 The B~cntg Society was founded in 1893 so 工 am sure that their first pub 工ications must now be co 工工 ectors' itemso Our two Societies share a common interest through tt. e 、寸 friendship of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bron 七話; in the current Brontg Socie 七y Transactions Mrs Gaskell's name appears on a third of 七he pages 。 As members of The GB_skell Society we have some missionary work to do ，to win better recognition for Eユizabeth Gaske 工工 's varied achievemen 七S 。 工t is encouragins to note that her novels are now available in several paper-back series: OaUaPo ，Penguin and Den 七。 工was appal 工ed by the inaccuracy of Longman's Outline of English Literature entry for Elizabeth Gaske ユエ which 工 found on the shelves of my local library;ι'Ruth is the sad story of aεirl whose paren 七s are dead~ North and South is a study of the different lives led by English peop1e ， especia ユ1y the poor in the north and the happier ones in

the south'o There is no mention of Cousin Phi1lis ，Sylvia 智 S Lover's or Wives and Daughters; the fact that it was written for overseas studen 七s does not excuse such omissions and inaccuracies and 1 wrote to te 工工 them so 。 Our steering committee has met twice since October and now has a draft constitution prepared to present to members at 七hεApri 工 meetingo ~e propose to hold the spring meeting ~ach year in Manchester on the 1ast Saturday in April and the -AoG 。刊。 in Knutsford on the last Saturday in Septembero As 1 have been asked s E' vera1 times when 工 am going to do ザ「 the Cranford Walk. again (sounds as if it should be set to music!) 工 shal1 repeat it on the 1ast Sunday in Sep 七ember ， }1 rs Gaske1l's bir 七hday being September 29tho 工f it takes place in the morning ，perhaps some of our members from distant p工aces may wish to stay overnight and join us; we

、 Knutsfordians might even treat them to a sandingo Many societ ies a. re trustee.s of the home of their authors which gives them a sense of purpose and identity ，but we ベノ 2

are fortunate in having avai ユable to us ヲ for n1E: 8七ings ， エNAUGURAT 工む N OF THE GASKEL1 SOC 工五 TY places ¥r Jith strong Gask E: 11 connections v.，r ithout ha.ving the A BrontM Society Member's Account re .s ponsibi 工ity for upkeep and maintenanceo Brook Street Chapel can only be described as Elizabeth Gaskel1 9 s On Saturday ，12th October 1985 ，the smal 工 Cheshire tow ロ spiritua1 home; one of her ancestors was a wi 七ness to the of Knutsford openly recognised a notable historic 工ink earliest extant trust deed in 169 斗 and many others are by providing the set 七ing for the formation of a new buried close to her in the chapel graveyarda All 1i ter; 三ry soci8ty ，to be known as The Gaske11 おociety"

Ge ミske1 工ians w土工工 cherish Brook street Chape10 工七 was an event 喧 surprising only in that it had not

happened long ago 四 that is of a11 the more interest in 工n Nεtnches 七81" there is Cross Street Chapel ¥vherε 'v li1liam view of the common ground which the new Society will Gaske1 工 minisiered for many years and a工工 the family inevitably share with the Bront 話 Society ，now not so joined in Sunday Schoo 工 teach 土ng and social work; at the many years short of its 100th anniversaryo Apart from Portico Library Wi 工工 iam was chairman for many years ，and the friendship which formed naturally between the two 84 Plymouth Grove ，where the Gaske 工工 family welcomed 80 nove ユists and advocates of women's rights ，i 七 was her rnany rnany visi to. T' S" rrhis 工atter Necca is where we shal 工 ho1d IILife f1 .of Char 工otte Brontg that won E1izabeth Gaske 工工 a ouf next meetinga place among the great biographers 。 Our membership is increasing steadi 工y and now i8 near1y 工n the ユate afternoon of a bright autumn day ，at the sixtYa We are pleased to have Dr Edgar Wright southern end of the tmvn the Brook Stree 七， Chapel school 町 (1-11" 8 Gaske11: The Basis for Reassessment ，OaUoPo 1965) ~ room l. .;as opened tc the public ，i :n vi ted there ，in 七he j五五「芯守芯 5r ちntario ，Canada 了石 ldτT 古5Td Duthie (?与 e terms of the prospectus ，"to discuss the fo 士、 matiori of the The 盗塁_of El:b~_~þg1 .h. Ga8 訟斗ラ ihcIT11 工工8. n '1980) who '.!Jrote to Gas l:<今工ユ Society" c 1n the event ， thE' only discussion me ，f1t was a joy to me to 1ive in the Gaskel 工 wor ld ¥^ihen needed centred on a few practical details ，for as had v.r riting my book" 1 become evident to anyone with even a cursory acquaintance

.c .c ¥1e are especia ユly pleased 土o announce that--Profes s. or with recent developments at Knutsford ，七 he concep 七 of a ~.Arthur Pollard has accepted our invi tation toγbe our Gaskel 工 Society had been steadily growing during the Presidento Not on1y 1JJ as he joi 立t editor ヲ with course of 198 ラ， the 175th anniversary year of Jo Ao Vo Chapple ，of the Collected Letters but a180 Mr8 Gaskell's birth; 七he series of events arranged to

a. uthor of f! vIrs Gaskel 工: Nove1ist and Biogra pher ' nJJ

Knutsfordian ヲ工 was living in Kent at that time 事 or The Society owes its inauguration to the work of perhaps The Gaske11 Society might have originated 七hen; 工 am sure Mrs Gaske 工1 wi11 still have faithfu 工 readers Mrs Joan Leach ，herse 工fa Knutsfordian ，who at the outset at her 200th anniversary ，but 1 might not have had 七he became interested in local history. .But as her ，research necessary dfive for a founding secretary if 1 had 10ft proeeeded ，her findings became so inextricab1y interwoven it til1 then! with Knutsford's Gaske 工1 associations that inevitably Mrs Gaskell came to occupy a great part of her interest 。 工t was this that 1ed her to cel~brate the 29th September ， 四 000- Hrs Gaske 工工 's birthday ，by organising and conducting a q ノ h this amount"μrs Leach had a1rsady obtained subventions nCranford ~Jalkìl (for ¥'uhich she also published an from 工oca1 bodies for the anniversary ce1ebrations ，and admirab 工y informati -v e a n: d.attractive leaflet) ，and to thought that more cou ユd be done in this directiono エt fo11ow this up 七he next day ~ith a Literary Luncheon held was envisaged that two general meetings wou1d be held each in the Royal George Hotelo year: a September meeting 事 probably combined with a Literary.Luncheon ，at Knutsford 事 and a spring meeting 事 Hrs Gaskell. vJ." as :brought up in Knu 七eford from her second most probab ユy in Hanchestero Other .mooted activities year by her aunt ，her deceased mother's sister ，and she inc1uded .the publication of an annua 工 magazine or journa1 う paid her tribute to it in her book HCranford" 事 by which and visits to places connected with Mrs Gaske エエ， such as she is perhaps most generally knowno The Brook Street Gawthorpe Hall ヲ Silverda ユe ，and the Lake Districto The Unitarian Chapel 守 bui 工七 in 1689 and loving 工y preserved; aim of the new Society ，as stated on the day's prograrume ， became her spiritual homeo She herself was buried there ， is to link a11 those with an interest in Mrs Gaske 工1 ，and together with her husband and two of her daughters; nearby to promote connected act ュvit ュes and research ，as we 工1 as are the gra~es of her ancestorso 工七 was thu.s fitting that a wider appreciation of her achiev&mentso in the earlier part of the afternoon of 12th October the Chapel should be the scene of a present a. tion by Barbara Beh -.J een now and 七he Apri1 1986 meeting ，the steering

Brill 唱 ably assisted by Nary Humphreys and Joe Tinds 工 ey~ committee wil 工 have much to consider and decide 。エ t can n of !i An Afternoon with the Gaskells ，an account of hardly be expected that the course of the Society's Mrs Gaskel 工's 工ife ，illustrated by readings from h8r development wi ユ1 become clear before the !l pril .meeting books and from her Olt Jn and her husband' s 1et ters 。 has been heldc By tha 七 time ，given effective publicity ， it may well have gained new members ，among 七hem pos8ibly Af 七0r a break for tea ，the inaugura 工 meeting ヲ introduced 80me who could ts. ke a hand in the administration of i七s by Mrs Leach ，was he ユd in the schoolroom nearby" Among affairs or 工end i七七h ら prestige of th0ir scho 工arship" 工t the founder 時 mer l1 bers presen t iJ :ere Dr ~va 工 ley ， alderman ，and 1/las 1/las said at the meetin ♂ that interest in Mrs Gaske エエ was previous to his retirement ，for near 工y 30 years a County by no means confined to this countryo The general mood Council ユor; !1r J 0 G 0 Sharps of Scarborough ラ author of of the meeting was enthusiastic and confident" Judging 忠之島法己どとのservation and In丘学と onムム St~_dL_o~ 単工 by the progress a1ready made 守七he Gaske1l Society wou 工d Non-Biogra :p hical ¥iiorks ラ pub1ished in 1970; Barbara Bri 工工? appear to hav 己圃 a promising futureo 高石τ百22F225γτf '~villiam Gaske1l was published in 198 斗; Tessa Brodetsιy ，author of a book on Mrs Gaskell due to JCHN NUSSEY be published in May 1986; and IVlrs Thwai te ，Custodian of (Editor 四 John Nussey is a great great nephew of Ellen

the Gaskel 工 Library ，Brook Street Chapel" other founder 四 Nussey ，c エose friend of Char 工ot 七e Bront~) members who had come to contribute their experience of

forming and running similar Societies were: 目。 00 由 Mr Kenneth Ou エtram Secretary of the Lewis Carro ユエ and ，' 工N G.ム SKELL FOOTSTEPS the Rando エph Ca1decott So c. ieties; and three members of the Brontg SocietyQ 工f you live near ，or visit~ any place associated with ヱt was proposed and agreed that. at-least unti 工 the next Mrs Gaske 工エー 工 wou 工d be pleased to have any information 。 general meeting ，.. :provisionally fixed. for the week after 工 intend to keep a reference filec Easter 1986 ，and.to be.held probably in l'v1 anchester 7 the Society's affairs should be administered by'a s~~~ring A 工80. ，i tems on such place.s and any other Gaske 工1 materia 工 commi ttee of eight persons ，wi th Nrs. Leach as Sec.retary wil 工 be welcomed for inc 工usion in future news 工etters or and Treasurer" The year1y subscription was provisiona 工工 y fixed at with a life. membership at around ten times journalso ~4 ， JOAN LEACH -000- 6 7 ANN 工 E~ j¥ 。ム ND FIlEEN 工NG goodbye before 七aking up a new position in London 'at So many names are seattered thro u. gh the COLLECTED LETTERS Penn's eoc as known near London as Fe ぇirbairn's hereo' He O F' il. 1RS Gj~ SKELL ヲ that tha reader is grateful to the had been invited to tea and afterwards; Elizabeth writes ， editors (Ja Ao Va dhapple and Arthur Pollard)*for the 'we sauntered in the garden ，F 工eeming saying how he had extensiv 台 index they have coapiled which gives the clues counted 9n his Saturday afternoon calls for near 工y 4 years to the backgrounds ，with dates ，addresses ，marri~d names ， and 工 sayin p; how hot 工 used to feel when the tea bel 工 rang re 工ationships and professions ，of individuals narned in and owin t's' to it' s being Papa I s busy day 工 could not ask him the cC? rrespondenceo This was my starting point ・in to stay ~. 'He praised you up (Marianne) and ;'Meta 0c .， he staid 七racins the story of Annieλustin and Fleeming Jonkino to supper and then bid us goodbye - real 工y ，fairly ，finally gone 0' Anr ょie ，referred to by Mrs Gaske 工工 as ムnnie Ao ，to

clis 七inguish her from the other Annies 四 Green and His mother ，Henrietta Jenk 工n ，1工ved in l，ondon and wrote ， two

Holland 四 has an early mention when she was visiting nove 工s ，V 工OLET BANK AND ITS 工N1V IATES and COUS 工N STEIJLAo P 工ymouth Grove in 1851 (90); Narianne is given permission Ivlrs Gaske 工工 wrote to George Smith (与 12) on behalf of to visit rvI rεl~ustin ana Annie l. vhen they are b;: ミck in Mrs J8nkin Vl hen she was looking for a publisher for COUS 工N London っ obvious 工y a family oI l: Jhom Eヱizabeth approveda srrELLA in 18 ラ90 This is confirmed when Annie i8 described as 'Me 七a's great friend~ (14 ラ) and was sharing the grey room ¥'Ji th The names of Annie ム。 and F工eeming disappear from the ¥1 .'3 と her when the house 8 fu 工工 (1 与3)ι エt was a las ing letters until 守859 町 when they come together in a letter

friendship? 8，S J.¥. nnie joined the family in 1858 ¥，'i hen they ドl. rs Gaskell wrote to Charles Norton (削 8)" 1 ムnnie Austin wer8 on ho 工iday atβilverda 工e (394 ，) v!here only clo ，s 8 is married to another friend of ours ，a young engineer iriends wer8 invitedo employed abou 七 ocean cab ユes ，Mr Fユeeming Jenkin 。工t Il' Jas a

pretty country walking wedding about a fortni 号ht ago .， 0 Q The first indication there is of Annie's interes 七 in they ':lent to Oxford for two days and 七hen to his lodgings music is whe :n she i.. JaS coming t6 stay wi th the Gaskel 工S at Birkenheado' Later in the 3ame rtI onth the newly married just after Christmas in 1851 and B 工izabeth hired a grand coup 工e dined at P工ymouth Grove (斗 22) 。 piano ~nd expected to have 'noise enough V (112)0 The

following Christmas when Annie joined them again the The Jenkins VJere living in London in 1862'and Fleeming 守 at Gaskells bought a new pianoo ー工 shall vJant it as soon Annie's suggestion ，was looking for su 土tab 工e エodgings for as we can have it if A~ Ao comes' (1 与2) 0 ¥'IJ hile Annie Mrs Gaskell and the girls to stay during 'June (505) 。 was with them on that occasi6n she joined Mr Gaske 工工 F 工eeming recommended a number of addresses' ，: including one and Meta at a Halle concert (1 斗与)。 where he and A. nnie had once stayed and found ta very nice landlady'c Th is is where they chose to stay at 32 Be 工grave A. nnie played a promin E:!l t .Pa.!主，~n a game of charades Road ，Pimlico 。 she f got up' wi th ivleta and Tottie Fox at Plymouth Grove in March 1851 (92) 。 Fleeming was made Professor of En gineefihg at London University dぽ ing these years in London and ば七er That same year a young apprentice ，Fleeming engi~eering Mrs ‘ Gaskell's death the Jenkins moved 'to Edinburgh .. Je D. kin ，who was vJorking in Hanchester ヲ was invited 七O- Fleeming was offered and accepted in 1868 'the new chair the Gaske 工ls 。 工七 appears he did ，not join the intimate of En gineering at Edinburgh Universityc During their first family circle but was on friendly terms with the girls: years in the Scottish capital Annie met a young schoolboy he was a year older than l\1 ariaririé'~' No mention is rnade of of 15 who was short 工Y to become one of her husband's hiEi hiEi in the letters until 1855 (259) ¥r :hen he C e..工 led to say students o ' She was visiting his parents and was hardly 只 J aware of the boy 8i tting in the corner of the rOonL opinion ，no more successful as a dramatist 七han he had

1品 en he led her to the door ，to 6eB her out ラ hlS been as an amateur actora When W. Ea Henley was c9nversation and appearance made a great impression" pressing him to co 工laborate with him in writing plays When 8he was back home she said to Fleeming f 工， hav 己 met J enkin wrot e: '工 am 80 thorough1y convinced that while a poe 七，~ The youth was Robert Louis Stevenson ，who you cou1d wrttB appreciative and admirab 工e things this against his own inc1ination was to take up an engineering play.business is an ignis fatuus - causing waste of time course ，as he was expec 七ed to continue in the family and brain 。ρρ 工 am not sure that Henley could not write a

profession of lighthouse bui 工ding and harbour workso p1ay but if ， so you are hindering not he1ping himo' (L 工FE OF ROBERT LOU 工S SITEV おNSON by Graham Bι 工four) (RGBERT LOU 工S STEVENSON by James Pope Hennessey)

The young Stevenson started his studies under Fleeming Jenkin was responsible for introducing R" Lo S. o .to the but eventual 工y pleaded with his father to switch to 1ega1 Savile Clu[? ¥!Jhe 主G he f~r 己 t began to move in 1iterary studieso He did not 工ose touch with the Jenkins for by circ ユeso エn those early days.of strugg 工ins to earn his

that 七ime he hod become an intimate friend aゃ~d regula.r living as a writer he ，had success with essays 事 among them visitor to their home and waεmade as welcome there as l'f i. LK AND TJ¥.LKERS pub ユished iロ 1882 by 七he Cornhi エエ

the youthful Fユeeming had been at Plymouth Grove. maιazine ，which published Hrs Gaske11' s lnJ 1VES AND DAUGHTE お3 守

cous 工NP 五工 LL 工S 干 CUR10US 工F ':r RUE and S 1X \~LEKS AT HEPPENHEIM e' Annie aroused in stevenson for the first time a love of 1n 七his essay PoLo ，s.， described some of the bri11iant music and aユ80 persuaded him to take part in 七h8 e1. mr:l.. tl;:;ur conversationalists he had known ，givinιthem fictitious

theat 工'icals which she regu1ar 工y organiBed at th( ミ house ヲ ne.mes .， J enkin ¥r.J as HCockshot tI， 'who was vast 1y ent ertaining a 工ways we1 ユrehearsed and of a high standard" J2.mes and has been meat and drink to me for many a 10ng evening Pope Hennessy in ROBER '1 1 LOU 工β3T l:'Nd~ ぷ CH describes He i8 bo 土tled effervescency and the sworn foe of s工eep 。

Hrs J'enkin as- 'an erudi te and charming Bng 工ishwoman it!i th "Three 叫 in-the 吋 norning Cockshot" says a victim~' a passion for private theatrica 工s' and Margaret Mackay in her biography of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson ，THE Three years later F1eeming was dead ，sudden1y after a VIOLENT FRIEND ，writes of Annie as 'an a七tractive and minor operation at the age of ラヨ。 及。 L050 wrote cu 工tured ¥rt! oman of strong persona1ity ，with an expressive immediate ユY to Annieo '1 never knew a better man nor one face and grand rnanner ，nicknamed by hGr family and to me more 1ovab1ea エcannot see my poor Jenkin without friends 'Madam'o 工t seems as though echoes of the you ，nor you indeed without him ，but you may try to rejoice hubbub of 1ife at P工ymouth Grove were heard in the that he was spared that extren iI tyo (工 was so much his Jenkins t home in Edinburgh which buzzed with music .9 .nd confidant) he never spoke of you but his face changed ，it talk from men and women in a1 工 walks of life 。 was - you were - his re1igiono' (LETT 乙RS OF hDBERT LOUIS STEVENSON edited by Sidney Co 工vin - June 1885) ltJhen ltJhen Stevenson 1eft Scot1and for London and then went wandering far afie 工d in search of better health in a He started on MEM01R OF FLE E} 1工NG JENK 工N within a few more suitable c工imate ， he' never lost touch with the months of his friend's deatho At this time stevenson and JenkinsQ He counted Fleeming among his closest and his wife Fanny were 1iving at Bournemouth and Annie ¥visest ¥visest friends and relied on him for advice and criticisrn visited them and was ab1e to supply detai1s for the memoir 。 (Graham Balfour's LIFE) " During 1878 Fleeming was He worked hard at the book and wrote to Edmund Gosse appointed a juror at the 工nternational E泣libi 七ion in (LE~TERS - Jan 1886) 守工 am very full of Jenkin's 1ife; it Paris and asked R"LoS" to join him there as his secretaryo is painfu1 yet p工easant to dig into the past of a dear

During t ha t s 七ay they went together to many plays and friend and find him at every spadefu1 shine ，brigh 七er" '

though Stevenson ユoved the theatre he was ，in F1eeming 干S 10 1 '1 From the f¥1 1"'M O 工R other facts emerge tha 七 are of specia1 Bournemouth and were themselves in ムmerica on the first intere8t in connection with the friendship 'of stage of their 30umey 附 stward that was to 工ead them to Mrs Gaske 工工 and Annie T. 0 and F1eeming 0 Ann.ie Austin was their fina1 home in Samoa 。 the only child ofH 士 and Mrs Alfred A. ustin 0 Be was a barris 七er and for a time was Poor Law inspector in The las 七 existing 1etter that he wro七 ~'~o Annie was fro~ Manchester ，particu 工ar 工y concerned with the potato the エr is1and home ，Vai1ima ，in December 18920 He pユeads famine and 工rish immigration in the 18 与08 ，work that with her to come out to stay with them 申 '3pare us a rnonth rnonth or tvJO for old sake' s. sake ，and make my wife and me doubtless brought him in touch with the ，Gaske 工18" 五e then went to 1ondon and distinguished himse1f during the happy and proudo QO<> Do ，please 守口~ke a virtuous effort epidemic of cho1era and final 工y became Permanent and take a g 工impse of a new world 工 am sure you do not Secre 七ary of Her Majesty's Office of Works and Pub 工ic dream cf ， e: t.nd sorne old friends who do oftsn 針eam of your arri val 0' ( LEfrr 記RS) Buildingso Ste 、venson t;e 11s us tha t Fleeming i:Vo. s gi ven a 工etter of int 工・ oduction to Mr Austin by Mrs Gaskel 工 ¥o1 hen he ¥rJe nt to take up his post at Penn t s 。工t $eems as An :n ie never made the'journey and two years later tho u. gh his and Annie's paths never 'crossed at Plymouth Stevenson was dead ，the second of the 工iterary geniuses Grove 0 Fleeming became a regular visi tor at the llustins ?ho had beerl her friends ，and like itm GaskelL prematurely and two years 工ater asked leave to 'pay Anrtie his (RoL"So was 与4) and at the height of his li terary 'powers addre d: ses'c They were courting for two years 。 and with an unfinished masterpiece on his hands “ WE 工R OF HE 町、 1工STON" Barbara Brill

The fol1owing facts about Fleeming's engineering career 勺~umbers refer to Collected Letters are of interest" He was apprenticed to Fairbairns when -000- he first came to Manchester 80 in view of the Gaske11 and Fairbairn friendship it is to be expected that GASKELL STUD 工ES lV lrs Gaske 工1 wou1d offer hospita 工ity to one of 七heir おembers wi 工工 not be ab1e to attend Keele Uriiversity Ad 叫 t young employees ，new to the towno Wh en Jenkin went to Education Weekend on: ELIZ ムB E': rH GASKEL1 ムND KヨUTSFORD ... wo.rk wo.rk for ，Penn' s he was involved with marine te1egraphy because it c1ashes wi th our next meeting! The course .ま s and moved between London and Birkenheado 工t was his from Friday evening 守T. pril 25th to Sunday 27th ，for work with e1ectrica1 experiments 七hat led to the offer res ユdential and day students 。工f 工 arrive at our meeting of a:chair ，at London University" He and Annie made a on A pri 1 26th ra 七her breathless ，it wi 工1 be because 工 am ha ppy home at 〆 Claygate in Surrey where their three sons meetins the Kee 工e group at Brook Street Chape:' ，for a were bornu They made an equa~ly h~ppy.home in ta 工k ，before coming on to Manchester 。 Edinburgh and his parents and Anrtieis came to Scotland to 1ive close at hando Barbara Bril ユ釘 ld myself wil1 be conducting a similar course for M2~chester University Extra-Mura1 Departmento

Stevenson was working on the book during a period of This is a 2 四 day Sumrner Campus course: on July 16th there will be three seminars; followed on July て7th by a coach ill health when he was often confined to .bed and forbid 申 den to write.. He passed some of his spare time in tour around Ivlanchester and Knutsford area. The course stu d.: γing the technica 工ities of music and exchanged is: MRS GASKELIJ I S NANCHESTER AND KNUTSF0 1D。 letters with Mrs Jenkin'about studies for the piano and Joan Leach asks her advice about where he can find the easiest works by Bach (LETTERS Iv larch .1886) 0 He corripleted the MEMO 工R in 1887 and it was published the following year ，first in ー000- America o By this time stevenson and his wife had 1eft 12 i3 SOME NOTES ABOUT BOOKS New Pub ユicatiohs by Hary Thwaite F' orthcoming in fvI ay i8 a volume in a ne 'IJI J H ¥r Jomen' s Series" As custodian of the !l Gaskell Collection 行事 dona 七ed in by Berg Publishers Li 臼πmited (1ea 出ロIT山 1960 by the late Professor ¥Jhi tfield to Brook street Gaske 工工" by Tessa Br工、odetskyo The cost is f.. 8095 (hardback) Chapel ，Knu 七sfordo 工 have been impressed withthe steady or ~3095 (paperback) increase of interest in the life and work 0主ドlr8 Gaske 工工。 Additions to the co エエ ection since then have chiefly been Iilan Sutton Publishing 1td" has just issued two Gaskel ユ donations ~nd these have recently included severa エvJorks tit ユes in a new series of "Pocket Classics" ・ in 工七 alian ，presented by Professor Francesco Marroni of il il "Hy Lady Ludlow" f， 2095 Pescara ，among them "Cranford for Italian readers ヲ and llThe llThe Hanchester f1 arriage" i3..95 his own article 0.0. l'1 rs Gaskell' s t~JO sOcial novels ヲ H sub 四七土七 led ?!Reflections on Hary Barton an. d !1 North and This second item includes ilAn accursed race" 事 "The Doom 1t South o Professor Harroni is expecting to publish 8. tl of the Griffiths ，"The Poor Clare" ，"The Half 四 brothers" ， fu エエ四 length study of Hrs Gaskel 工's writ 土ロ gs this year 。 and "lVI工‘ Harrison's Confessions" 。

Another donor in Ita ユy i8 Professor Michele 工ngenito of Sa ユerno University 1.;110 has presented. his 150-page Editor's note study of lIf11 ary Bar 七on" ，•'published in 1983 事"l'- 1ary Barton: il romanzo de 工工とえ denuncia !l.， This .is p: ub 工ished for the 門主主 1ady Ludl9W !i is of particular interest to me as 工

University by Edizioni Scieritifiche Italiane ，80121 警 am sure that her ladyship owes much to Lady Jane stanley ， Nap ユ es~ via Chiatamone 7 。 daughter of the 11th Ea rl of Derby ，who li ve.J in Knutsford" ム solici tor in the to ¥t Jn keeps a black metal deed box

yiThe yiThe G&.ske ユ1 Collection" at 七he l'v lanches 七er City Reference labelled '1ady Jane Stanley 事 s Chari ty' ，which still Library exists and dates back to her wi ユ1 of 1802 ，thp longest 工 have ever seen" Perhaps there will be space in a future Christine Lingard~ the 工ibrari a. n responsible for the care journal to write about hero She has sometimes bεen of the wide-ranging resources in this co 工lection ，has identified with Mrs Jamieson in 'Cranford' but this i8 sent me 80me detai 工s of a work ，recent 工y added which may less 工ike ユy 。 not be vJell 四 known to members:

Frycksett ，Monica Correa "Mr Harrison's Confession~' is a delightfu 工 prelude.to "Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth: a 'Cranford' ，clearly based on Mrs Gaskell's know~edge challenge to Christui 五政 19 工.a nd' V::- 1982 一一一 through her uncle ，Peter Holland's work as a doctor in This i8 a Doctora 工 dissertation (in English) accepted by Knutsfordo Although Mr Harrison tells the story it is 七he University of Uppsala" It is distributed by Alniquist the ladies who dominate the action and intrigue 。 & ¥viksell 工nternational ，S-101 20 Stockholm (Sweden) 。 Mentioned in our Book News notes ，Professor Francesco 工ts.book number is 工SBN 91- ララ九 -1318 四 8 .. Marroni ，Christine Lingard and Tessa Brodetsky'al 工 She a1so mentions a new edition of "Ru th" ，edited by Alan belong to our .s ociety and are working to spread wider H Sherston (OoUoPo "World's Classics serieso 1985)0 knowledge and appreciation of Elizabeth Gaske l， l's There are many notes ，including the 印 ggestion that works 。 Eccleston was founded on Macclesfield ，rather than Knutsford or Newcastle 。 問。 00- 書 EE E・ -zz・ 1 斗 f:豊 -i5

1 :rvI RS GASKELL -A CIN lJ EBELLA A1 CHムTS\~ORTH not yet up oco so a nice looking housekeeper took us over the house ，and the Duke's gentleman C 3. me to tell Mrs Gaske11 was warned ，soon after her sudden rise to us that t工uncheon W Ol λ工d be at two and that room ぉ were fame as the authoress of 'IvI ary Barton' ，by an unknown prepared for us'o You may imagine how Meta and 工 correspondent 甲 'against being 工ionised'o She rep1ied~ looked at each other ronembering our wardrobe' ..， 『工 11ar d. 1y underst8.nd what i8 meant by the term; nor do

1 think anything cou1d alter me from my own self; but 工 Reading this 工1t Jas puzzled by the t green card f and whv wi1l be on rny guard I 0 She commented 18.ter after a f. 廿 s Gaskel1 'expected' the Duke itlould wish to see h8ro visit to London that she had 'done her du 七y as a. meek 守 1 photocop i. ed the 1e 七ter and sent it off to Chatsworth submissive lion ， fresh imported from the desert'o (斗 0 ，与 8) asking for informationo 工 received a fascinating rep ユy from the Duchess of Devonshire who told me that she had

ム工 though she 包 shunned publicity i七 was on 工y natural known of the visit and the 工etter but 'was delif 之htect to that she should enjoy some of the rewards of fame c. reaα 工τccgal 立守 so cha:cming1y ¥..r ri t ten and full of

One such occasion VJas C "L visit to Chatsworth ¥r Ji th her i. nterest for ぽ lyone 1tJ ho likes this plac80 工 asked daughter ，l1 eta 事 in September 18570 Michael Pe a. rman 司 our librarian ，if he cou1d throw aロy light on the green cardc 10 and beho1d ，1 found on my

工七 ¥'lI as in a birthday 1etter to her e工dest daughter 7 table 3 cards 守 Green 守 b 工ue and buff 守 be 加8. 叫凶lult 比tifu 工工 y eemηmbo 切 ミ勾 sed Marianne~ that the events 1tJ ere re 工a七ed (Letters: edo 1t Jユth a eiI dd: 工1. 8 and 'This cコar工、d to be presen 七ed to 七he Houλιs 令eke まepe r工、F Chapple & Po11ard - 372) Cha 七sworth ，Sunday morng 。 unde 工rne εuhe: “ 。0<> You wil ユbe surprized at the date of this; and SD ¥Je think the co 工ou. rs meant gracles of status ，perhaps hmv indeed 'am 工心 1 fee1 more 1ike Cinder011a ，than anyone 工ong a tour or something 工ike that 。 else you can imaginG 。工 am wri ting before bre2_kfas 七; 工 had never seeu them 80 you have been res.ponsib1e for a v!aiting for Ivl eta ，who 1 heartily wish 'v Jas rcady; for 1 lovely surprisel' do not kno¥¥! wha 七 room we are to breakfaεt in or h 01.t{ to find it out in this wilderness of a palace of a house 。 Mrs Gaskell went on with her lettcr ，telling Marianne that A11 yesterday we were driving 丘nd going about ，so that there were more visitors in the house than they had been it was impossible 七o write a 工ine to any of you bu 七 I led to expect but 'we thought it was a pity to miss seeing thought of 12.と often my darling ，and of t¥1 Jenty three and doing many agreeable things for the sake of no gowns 四 years ago ，when you lay by my side such a pretty wee 80 vJe brave 工y consented to stay after sending an apologetic baby ，and 1 lJ /as a1ways uncovering you to 100k at you ， message to the Duke OQO We are estab 工ished in two great and always getting sco1ded for giving you a cold by rooms ，the curtains to my bed being of thick ，white satin the nurseo' stamped with si1ken rosebudso Meta proposed that we should dress ourselves UP in themo' Hrs Gaske 11 ¥ven 七 on to describe how they had travel 工ed from lv' lanchester on top of the coach 曹 there being no The Duchess of Devonshire writes that 'the sarne curtains 'inside p工aces' ，in the pouring rain ，'to the great are still in the best visitors' bedroom on the four-poster detriment of our clothes'" After lodging overnight in bedoβome was re-done by my grand-mother-in-law ，hand nearby Rowsley Vi11age ，she wrote ，'Direct 工y after painted on satino' breakfast we took a little pony carriage ，and we came on here tc see the house with our green card; as 工 80 if you pay a visit to Cha 七sworth ，do 100k for the_m and expected ，1 soon had a message from the Duke ，¥¥I ho was a1so try to imagine Mrs Gaskell and Meta 'being dii 寸en up and dO'-' In (accompanied by Sir Joseph Paxton ， 'alrnost 1t ，

i 1ike the host ) in a 1it 七工 e 10w poney (sic) carriage and four 1ove1y circus-1ike ponies ，posti11ions etco

and f81t 工ike Cindere 工工 a ヲ seeing views and improve- ments and a11 the fountains p工aying and .:i工工 the ¥'laterworks ¥'laterworks going ，and ended by dri ving 迫22 £主 the conservatory 0' -000-

FOI 在日COH 工NG NEETING 四ム PHIL 26TH

The nex 七百leeting will be he1d at 8与 P 工ymouth Grove

on April 26th j beginning at 200 pmo Hmi de 工igh 七ful it wil1 be to gather in Nr3 Gaske1l's dra 1rJ ing room an d. drink tea in her dining room" rThe hous.e be 工ongs to I¥:lancheste 工‘ University and is used by The 工nternational Society which exists to enccurag~ greater 、underst a..l1 ding amongst peop 工es of different.cu1tural backgrounds and is a 1rJe lf e. re and information cent .r e for OV8rseas 8七uden 七s 。 The staff of The 工ntern e. tiona 工 Society have kindly aι :r eed to provide us with home-baked teas at ゐ1 e; ミchco Please let me know if you wi ユ1 p 9. rtake; tea and biscui ts vJIll a工80 be provided 。 We are privi 工egGd to have as our speaker at this ロ18eting ，Jo Geoffrey Sharps who has 80 en 七husiastically suppor 七ed our ~ndeav9urs to found The Gaske 工1 Society ， nothing daunted by the distance betvleen Scarborough and Knutsforda He will tell us 官官ow 工 Became a Gaskellia~Ye His book ，'l '1 rs Gaske エエ'~ Observation and Invention' (Linden Press 1970) involved him in extensive ヲお earch ， collection of material and cont&ct with the elite circ1e of other Gaske1l scho1ars ，a11 of which he shares with fellow Gaskellians in his indispensab 工e book 0 He i" ras invo 工ved with Chapp1e and Pol 工ard on 七he Collected Letters θ.nd assisted Chapp1e wi th his immense 工y readable ，'Mrs Gaskell: ム Portrait in Letters' (封。 UoPo 1980) 。 ・ mcwaaa'knn1tnuc伊む mevde-aeto-- --usnraσop0uo f4 tet hre es This will be an epoch ・ Societyo oamn npmbn Do let me ~~ow if you ， are 工imited d‘ 1・ a、 to 80 and 工:w ould not ふ ゐ members - ;r o;r empty seats!

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