Join the Gaskell Society The Gaskell Society Name Patron: Sarah Prince The Gaskell Society President: Dr Shirley Foster Address Vice-Presidents: Professor Francesco Marroni and Jenny Uglow Secretary: Pam Griffiths 37 Buckingham Drive, Knutsford WA16 8LH Meeting and Study Session Contacts Email North West Pam Griffiths | [email protected] The Gaskell Society takes your privacy seriously and will London and South East only use your personal information to administer your membership. See www.gaskellsociety.co.uk/privacy, for how Marie Moxon | [email protected] we use your data, who we share it with, how we keep it South West secure and your rights as a data subject. Ann Brooks | [email protected] I consent to the use of mail and email to Venues for Meetings inform me about Gaskell Society matters. Manchester - Cross Street Chapel Sign Cross Street, Manchester M2 1NL or type Knutsford - Brook Street Chapel Room Adam’s Hill, Knutsford WA16 8DY Subscription prices London - Francis Holland School Individual £23 / Joint £28 / Student £15 39 Graham Terrace, London SW1W 8JF Please make cheques payable to The Gaskell Society (Nearest Tube: Sloane Square) I (name) South West: BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN wish the Gaskell Society (Charity No 1098017) to treat my donation of £_____ as a Gift Aid donation. Elizabeth Gaskell’s House I would like all qualifying donations and gifts of Open to visitors at money to be treated as Gift Aid. The Gaskell Society 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester M13 9LW can reclaim 25p tax for every £1 donated elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk Sign or type [email protected] Please return your completed form to: Jackie Tucker, 210 Astley Street, The Gaskell Society @GaskellSociety Dukinfield, Cheshire, SK16 4QD [email protected] www.gaskellsociety.co.uk Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1810-1865 About the Gaskell Society Our Publications The novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell was The Society was formed in 1985, after events to The Gaskell Journal is born in London in 1810, but brought up by her aunt celebrate the 175th anniversary of Elizabeth Gaskell’s published annually with in Knutsford, Cheshire, after her mother’s death birth. We now have an international membership, scholarly articles on all in 1811. In 1832 Elizabeth married the Reverend with branches in the United States, Italy and Japan, aspects of Gaskell studies. William Gaskell, a Unitarian minster at Cross Street as well as in the North West of England, London & The Gaskell Society Chapel in Manchester. Four of their children, all South East and the South West. Newsletter is published girls, survived. Our Events twice a year and features interesting articles and A remarkably independent, sociable and energetic We are a lively, active and very friendly society with information about events. woman, Elizabeth drew upon a wide range of a busy schedule, including: experience in her writing. She was not afraid to The Journal and the • A programme of meetings, lectures and study tackle the pressing social problems of the day. Her Newsletter are free to sessions, featuring Victorian history, literature literary output was varied, including many short members. and the works of women writers in addition to stories, as well as Mary Barton and North and Elizabeth Gaskell. These take place in Knutsford, Our website carries regular features, blog posts and South, both dealing with the problems of industrial Manchester, London and Bath. points for discussion on Gaskell and related subjects. Manchester. She also wrote Cranford and Cousin Phillis, both set in Cheshire; Ruth, the story of an • We hold our Annual General Meeting in Our Aims unmarried mother; The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a Manchester each Spring and our Autumn • We promote and encourage the study and pioneering work of literary biography, and Sylvia’s Meeting in Knutsford. Both include guest appreciation of the work and life of Elizabeth Lovers, a historical novel about Whitby. speakers and a lunch. Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865). Elizabeth Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, having • We host a biennial Gaskell Society Conference. • We record sources of information about the almost completed Wives and Daughters. • We organise visits and outings to places work of Elizabeth Gaskell and any other material The publication of The Letters of Mrs Gaskell, edited associated with Elizabeth Gaskell and her relating to her life, family and memory. by J.A.V. Chapple and Arthur Pollard in 1966 contemporaries, both in the UK and overseas. • We foster and stimulate an understanding of her marked the revival of interest in her work. This was work and life. supplemented by Further Letters of Mrs Gaskell, Find our full diary of events edited by John Chapple and Alan Shelston (2000). at gaskellsociety.co.uk/events • We promote and support special projects relating Jenny Uglow’s biography, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit to her life and work, as well as encouraging of Stories (1993) was a best seller. More recently, republication of her works. Alan Shelston’s Brief Lives: Elizabeth Gaskell (2010) • We support and raise funds for Elizabeth provides a fascinating insight into the author’s life. Gaskell’s House in Manchester (opposite). Television adaptations of Wives and Daughters (1999), North and South (2004) and Cranford (2007 • We co-operate with other societies having an and 2009) have further widened Gaskell’s following. interest in Elizabeth Gaskell and her times. The Gaskell Society is a registered charity (1098017) and affiliated to the Alliance of Literary Societies. Cover image: Elizabeth Gaskell, by George Richmond RA, the frontispiece for Mary Barton, Knutsford Edition (Smith, Elder & Co, 1906).