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Our 2025 Journal is out now, available to our members, also coming soon to Proquest and JSTOR . Join our society if you'd like a copy. https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/join-us/
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Our 2025 Journal is out now, available to our members, also coming soon to Proquest and JSTOR . Join our society if you'd like a copy. https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/join-us/
Unknown recipient 1856: ‘I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man’s judgment was to be had. Women have no judgement. They have tact, and sensitiveness and genius…’ #gaskell#gaskelleveryday
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Unknown recipient 1856: ‘I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man’s judgment was to be had. Women have no judgement. They have tact, and sensitiveness and genius…’ #gaskell#gaskelleveryday
Parthenope Nightingale 1854: ‘…in some odd leisure ¼ of an hour would you mind writing a little about what I am so greedy to know. I pick up all the scraps I can out of newspapers; but they only whet my hunger’ #gaskel#gaskelleveryday
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Parthenope Nightingale 1854: ‘…in some odd leisure ¼ of an hour would you mind writing a little about what I am so greedy to know. I pick up all the scraps I can out of newspapers; but they only whet my hunger’ #gaskel#gaskelleveryday
To Maria James 1851: ‘Mr. Gaskell and I want to congratulate Mr. James on his appointment as master in Chancery; though what that mysterious office may be…I know as much of as I know of the Grand Llama’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
To Maria James 1851: ‘Mr. Gaskell and I want to congratulate Mr. James on his appointment as master in Chancery; though what that mysterious office may be…I know as much of as I know of the Grand Llama’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
To John Forster 1852: ‘We dined quietly with Mrs. Wordsworth this morning. She is charming’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
To John Forster 1852: ‘We dined quietly with Mrs. Wordsworth this morning. She is charming’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
To R. Monckton Milnes Oct 29 1853: "With skilful diplomacy, for which I admire myself extremely, I have obtained the address we want"#gaskelleveryday
October 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
To R. Monckton Milnes Oct 29 1853: "With skilful diplomacy, for which I admire myself extremely, I have obtained the address we want"#gaskelleveryday
To Harriet Martineau on Adam Bede and Janet’s Repentences 1859: ‘I have stuck out that a man wrote them.. I had rather they had not been written by Miss Evans…but justice must be done to all; and after all the writing... should raise her in everyone’s opinion’ #gaskellev#gaskelleveryday
October 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
To Harriet Martineau on Adam Bede and Janet’s Repentences 1859: ‘I have stuck out that a man wrote them.. I had rather they had not been written by Miss Evans…but justice must be done to all; and after all the writing... should raise her in everyone’s opinion’ #gaskellev#gaskelleveryday
To Mary Carpenter, re: a publication by H. Martineau, thought to affirm Atheism and Materialism: ‘I don’t quite understand the domestic politics of these vallies; but Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Davy have thought it right to decline intercourse with Miss Martineau’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
To Mary Carpenter, re: a publication by H. Martineau, thought to affirm Atheism and Materialism: ‘I don’t quite understand the domestic politics of these vallies; but Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Davy have thought it right to decline intercourse with Miss Martineau’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
To George Smith 1855: ‘The Professor’ Mr. Nicholls would not allow me to see, saying that whole pages of it had been embodied in ‘Villette’ #gaskell#gaskelleveryday
October 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
To George Smith 1855: ‘The Professor’ Mr. Nicholls would not allow me to see, saying that whole pages of it had been embodied in ‘Villette’ #gaskell#gaskelleveryday
To Marianne 1851: ‘I hear that a new housemaid whom I have engaged is coming (from Stamford in Lincolnshire) the day after tomorrow, and I must write untold of directions home about things, as the servants don’t expect her’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
October 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
To Marianne 1851: ‘I hear that a new housemaid whom I have engaged is coming (from Stamford in Lincolnshire) the day after tomorrow, and I must write untold of directions home about things, as the servants don’t expect her’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
To L Hachette 1855: I had a message... that translations of my works had already appeared in the ‘Bibliothéque du Chemin du fer’[sic]. If there should be any money owing…the friend who will convey to you the numbers of Household Words is authorized to receive it #gaskel#gaskelleveryday
October 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
To L Hachette 1855: I had a message... that translations of my works had already appeared in the ‘Bibliothéque du Chemin du fer’[sic]. If there should be any money owing…the friend who will convey to you the numbers of Household Words is authorized to receive it #gaskel#gaskelleveryday
Meta to Charles E. Norton about Marianne’s flirtation with Catholicism: ‘Our fears about her have almost past….she re-entered her home life, the excitement died a natural death; and now I really believe that her thoughts hardly ever revert to Roman Catholicism’ #gaskell#gaskelleveryday
October 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Meta to Charles E. Norton about Marianne’s flirtation with Catholicism: ‘Our fears about her have almost past….she re-entered her home life, the excitement died a natural death; and now I really believe that her thoughts hardly ever revert to Roman Catholicism’ #gaskell#gaskelleveryday
To Marianne form 106 Haupt Strasse 1858: ‘It seems always to be me to write; but…the others, Meta especially do work pretty hard at their German; and that we have more people popping in and out than we expected #gas#gaskelleveryday
October 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
To Marianne form 106 Haupt Strasse 1858: ‘It seems always to be me to write; but…the others, Meta especially do work pretty hard at their German; and that we have more people popping in and out than we expected #gas#gaskelleveryday
To Ellen Nussey 1855: ‘it is my busiest time of the year, and our house has been and is, almost fuller than it will hold of company, for whose amusement and entertainment I have to plan each day’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
October 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
To Ellen Nussey 1855: ‘it is my busiest time of the year, and our house has been and is, almost fuller than it will hold of company, for whose amusement and entertainment I have to plan each day’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
To Parthenope Nightingale, 1854: ‘You can’t think how generous I feel myself in giving you a whole sheet of paper, when I have only two left’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
October 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
To Parthenope Nightingale, 1854: ‘You can’t think how generous I feel myself in giving you a whole sheet of paper, when I have only two left’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
To Mary Green 1855: ‘I thought I had a piece of quiet before me; but then came a letter from Mrs. Chapman the Anti-Slavery Mrs. C. volunteering a visit that afternoon to stay till today’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
To Mary Green 1855: ‘I thought I had a piece of quiet before me; but then came a letter from Mrs. Chapman the Anti-Slavery Mrs. C. volunteering a visit that afternoon to stay till today’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
To Marianne 1859: ‘I shall never be wise enough in a tête a tête with a girl who does not read poetry and novels but Adam Smith and Niall etc. & ‘and has no sense of humour but takes everything literally’ #gaskell#gaskelleveryday
October 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
To Marianne 1859: ‘I shall never be wise enough in a tête a tête with a girl who does not read poetry and novels but Adam Smith and Niall etc. & ‘and has no sense of humour but takes everything literally’ #gaskell#gaskelleveryday
To Verlag B. Tauchnitz 1862: ‘ I cannot help wishing that sometime or other you would collect Cranford out of Household Words, and publish it in your series’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
To Verlag B. Tauchnitz 1862: ‘ I cannot help wishing that sometime or other you would collect Cranford out of Household Words, and publish it in your series’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
To Anne Holland from Lea Hurst, the Nightingales’ house near Matlock: ‘I did not know Derbyshire before. It is beautiful as distinct from wild or grand’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
October 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
To Anne Holland from Lea Hurst, the Nightingales’ house near Matlock: ‘I did not know Derbyshire before. It is beautiful as distinct from wild or grand’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
"Marriage would be very nice... I shouldn’t mind being a bride, if I could be one without having a husband." Bathsheba, Far From the Madding Crowd.
Discuss. Join our study sessions - we start October 28 https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/thomas-hardy-and-elizabeth-gaskell/
Discuss. Join our study sessions - we start October 28 https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/thomas-hardy-and-elizabeth-gaskell/
October 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Marriage would be very nice... I shouldn’t mind being a bride, if I could be one without having a husband." Bathsheba, Far From the Madding Crowd.
Discuss. Join our study sessions - we start October 28 https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/thomas-hardy-and-elizabeth-gaskell/
Discuss. Join our study sessions - we start October 28 https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/thomas-hardy-and-elizabeth-gaskell/
From Marianne to Charles Eliot Norton 1859: ‘I hope Mama and Meta will go to Whitby next week for a fortnight or so-Mama is much better than she has been for a long time but I want her not to be in Manchester in November’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
October 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
From Marianne to Charles Eliot Norton 1859: ‘I hope Mama and Meta will go to Whitby next week for a fortnight or so-Mama is much better than she has been for a long time but I want her not to be in Manchester in November’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
To Marianne from Lea Hurst 1854: ‘I have done little but write all day & and it is now near 5, and I must go out. I have very little news to tell anyone’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
October 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
To Marianne from Lea Hurst 1854: ‘I have done little but write all day & and it is now near 5, and I must go out. I have very little news to tell anyone’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
To Samuel Holland ? 1857: ‘tell us when there is a chance of you & Annie coming to see us. Would any time in November do? We shall have some good concerts in that month’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
October 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
To Samuel Holland ? 1857: ‘tell us when there is a chance of you & Annie coming to see us. Would any time in November do? We shall have some good concerts in that month’ #gas#gaskelleveryday
To Charles Bosanquet 1863:‘most our days being spent from 9AM to7-30PM in the Sewing –Schools. We were all so knocked up by this extra duty’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
October 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
To Charles Bosanquet 1863:‘most our days being spent from 9AM to7-30PM in the Sewing –Schools. We were all so knocked up by this extra duty’ #gaske#gaskelleveryday
At Sea-Scale, Whitehaven 1857: ‘…it is a blusterous place…(We have had to wear a pair of drawers for a dressing gown , owing to Hearn’s queer packing up’ #gaskellev#gaskelleveryday
October 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
At Sea-Scale, Whitehaven 1857: ‘…it is a blusterous place…(We have had to wear a pair of drawers for a dressing gown , owing to Hearn’s queer packing up’ #gaskellev#gaskelleveryday