Period drama lovers continue to hail this BBC series more than 20 years on from its release. Wives and Daughters is a 1999 ...

Bridgerton (right) has been seen by 82 million viewers worldwide, ten times the audience the BBC's Cranford garnered in 2007 It is 170 years since Elizabeth Gaskell first published her most popular ...

Building on theories of space and place, the contributors to this collection bring a variety of geographical, industrial, psychological, and spatial perspectives to bear on the vast range of Gaskell's ...

Historians are trying to restore the reputation of the husband of one of Manchester’s most famous women. While the profile of novelist Elizabeth Gaskell – author of Cranford and North And South – ...

First published in 1851, Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Disappearances’ presents imaginative retellings of six stories of men who vanished under mysterious circumstances in the eighteenth and early nineteenth ...

A collection of letters written by two Victorian families – including one of the era’s best loved writers - have been acquired by The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library. The ...

A new permanent exhibition has opened at Elizabeth Gaskell's House exploring the author's role in Victorian society and her links to Charlotte Bronte. The Cranford author lived in the 19th Century ...

In 2010 Manchester Historic Buildings Trust appointed Crick Smith Conservation to analyse the paint and decorative finishes of the Gaskells' House at 84 Plymouth Grove, Ardwick, Manchester. The ...

Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved portrait of life in a small town and its female inhabitants. Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved portrait of life in a small town and its female inhabitants. Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved ...

As a burgeoning memoirist, Nell Stevens specializes in starting out in the wrong direction. In 2013 she went off to the Falkland Islands to write a novel. She ended up writing a memoir about not ...