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Abbreviations

In The Gaskell Journal, all page references to Elizabeth Gaskell's works are to the appropriate volumes, indicated by an abbreviated title, in the revised 'World's Classics' paperback series. These are as follows:

  1. Cranford, ed Elizabeth Porges Watson, 1980 CD
  2. 'Cousin Phillis' and other tales, ed Angus Easson, 1981 CP
  3. North and South, ed Angus Easson, 1982 NS
  4. Sylvia's Lovers, ed Andrew Sanders, 1982 SL
  5. Ruth, ed Alan Shelston, 1985 RU
  6. Wives and Daughters, ed Angus Easson, 1987 WD
  7. Mary Barton, ed Edgar Wright, 1987 MB
  8. 'My Lady Ludlow' and other stories, ed Edgar Wright, 1989 MLL
  9. 'A Dark Night's Work' and other stories, ed Suzanne Lewis, 1992 ADNW
  10. 'The Moorland Cottage' and other stories, ed Suzanne Lewis, 1995 MC
  11. The Life of Charlotte Bronte, ed Angus Easson, 1996 LCB

Other material will be given a full reference to an appropriate source, usually the relevant volume of the 'Knutsford' edition.

References to Gaskell's letters will normally be to The Letters of Mrs Gaskell, eds J. A. V. Chapple and A. Pollard (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1966), Letters, and to Further Letters of Gaskell, ed. John Chapple and Alan Shelston (Manchester University Press, 2000), Further Letters. We are grateful to the editors of this volume for their permission to quote from them.

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The Gaskell Journal
VOLUME 23 (2009)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

ARTICLES

Space in Gaskell's landscapes Shirley Foster

Cranford: Gaskell's most radical novel? Caroline M. Jackson-Houslton

Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and scenes of clerical life Graham Handley

'Ready to hear and to help': Female agency and the reclamation of the fallen woman in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Lizzie Leigh' Emily Jane Morris

Elizabeth Gaskell and the Crimean War Alan Shelston

NOTES The translation of Elizabeth Gaskell's short stories and non-fiction writing into Japanese Mariko Tahiran

'Politics and everyday life': Translating 'Morton Hall' into Japanese Tomoko Kanda

REVIEWS Mary Jean Corbett: Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage and lncest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf Linda Hughes

Wendy Parkins: Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s Marion Shaw

Andrew Radford and Mark Sandy eds: Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era Janet Cunliffe-Jones

Elizabeth Sabiston: Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot Patricia Ingham

Laurel Brake and Marya Demoor, eds: The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century Alan Shelston

REPORTS

The Society's Year Elizabeth Williams
The North-West Group Joan Leach
The South-West Group Rosemary Marshall
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The Gaskell Society of Japan Akiko Suzue
The Gaskell House Janet Allan

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2008-9

INDEX

The Gaskell Journal
VOLUME 22 (2008)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

A trip to Scarborough and some letters: An informal remembrance of John Geoffrey Sharps Walter Smith

ARTICLES

'A Word or Two here about Myself': Narrating Subjectivity and Feminist Ethics in Cranford Mary Jeanette Moran

Gender Play 'At our social table': The New Domesticity in the Cornhill and Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters Lindsy Lawrence

Elizabeth Gaskell's Legacy from Romanticism John Beer

Education in the Life and Work of Elizabeth Gaskell Alan Sheiston

Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Useful' Relatives: Katharine and Anthony Todd Thomson and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Carol A. Bock

'A very nice American' - Gaskell's enigmatic Mr Collier Michael F. Dixon

'A poor Man I know': Samuel Bamford and the making of Mary Barton Robert Poole

Statistical Analysis of the Structure of North and South: in the Quest for the Standard Interpretation Tatsuhiro Ohno

'A joke spoken in a rather sad tone': Cranford, humour, and Heidi Thomas's television adaptation b>Rebecca White

REVIEWS Review of the BBC Adaptation of Cranford, BBC 1, 2008 Alan Sheiston

Susan E. Colón: The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel Graham Handley

Julie Nash: Servants and Paternalism in the works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell Margaret Lesser

Linda Dowling: Charles Eliot Norton: The Art of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America Jane Silvey

Marjorie Garson: Moral Taste: Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and Social Power in the Nineteenth-Century Novel Shirley Foster

Carolyn Lesjak: Working Fictions: A Genealogyof the Victorian Novel Rebecca Styler

Isobel Hurst: Victorian Women Writers and the Classics Caroline M. Jackson-Houlston

Patricia Zakreski: Representing Female Artistic Labour 1848-1890 Barbara Dennis

REPORTS FOR 2007

The Gaskell Society Conference Mary Haynes Kuhlman

The Society's Year Elizabeth Williams
The North-West Group Joan Leach
The Yorkshire Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West Group Rosemary Marshall
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The Gaskell Society of Japan Akiko Suzue
84 Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2008-9

INDEX

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 21 (2007)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

ARTICLES

Romancing Manchester: Class, Gender and the Conflicting Genres of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South Nils Clausson

The Romance of Politics and the Politics of Romance in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton Kamilla Elliott

'Heroic Pioneers': The Ladies of Cranford Caroline P. Huber

A Weakness, a Sin, or a Mind Diseased: A New Assessment of Cynthia Kirkpatrick Lacy L. Lynch and Susan E. Colón

'A Dark Night's Work' Reconsidered Graham Handley

'Lois the Witch': A Unitarian Tale Rebecca Styler

NOTES

Dramatic Irony in Ruth Tatsuhiro Ohno

The Changing Title of Mary Barton Maurice Milne

A 'tangled bank': Willets, Wedgwood, Darwin and Holland families John Chapple

REVIEWS

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Pickering Edition, Volumes 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 John Chapple
Elizabeth Gaskell, The Ghost in the Garden Room, ed. Fran Baker Elizabeth Williams
Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford: Penguin edition (2005), ed. Patricia Ingham Gwen Clarke
Patsy Stoneman: Elizabeth Gaskell (2nd ed) Jo Pryke
Jill L. Matus ed.: Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell Graham Handley
Louise Henson: 'Mesmeric Delusions: Mind and Mental Training in Elizabeth Gaskell's Writings' Josie Billington
Valerie Wainwright: Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster Ian Campbell
Allan Conrad Christensen: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion Renzo D'Agnillo

REPORTS FOR 2006

The Society's Year Elizabeth Williams
The North-West Group Joan Leach
The Yorkshire Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The Gaskell Society of Japan Akiko Suzue
84 Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2007-8

INDEX

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 20 (2006)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

ARTICLES

Primary sources for Gaskell research (1) Gaskell papers in the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester Fran Baker

Elizabeth Gaskell and Roman Catholicism John Chapple

Gaskell the worker Linda K. Hughes

Gothic themes in Elizabeth Gaskell's fiction Laura Kranzler

Literature, the city and the census: examining the social body in Victorian Britain Kathrin Levitan

Courts obscure: the architectural shaping of identity in 'Libbie Marsh's Three Eras' Sarina Moore

Opportunity and anxiety: Elizabeth Gaskell and the development of the railway system Alan Shelston

The inoffensive philanthropist: the way of humility in North and South John Wyatt

NOTES

Early Gaskell's Yorkshire ghost story John Chapple

Early Gaskell scholars (5) Sanders and Northup Larry Uffelman

OBITURY

John Geoffrey Sharps (1936-2006) Alan Shelston

REVIEWS

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Pickering Edition, Volumes 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 John Chapple
Dudley Green, ed: The Letters of the Reverend Patrick Brontë Robert Barnard
Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton: World's Classics edition (2006), ed. Shirley Foster Gwen Clarke
Sophia Andres: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel. Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries Barbara Dennis
Tamara S. Wagner: Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 Howard F. Gregg
Graham Handley: An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology Alan Shelston

REPORTS FOR 2005

The Society's Year Elizabeth Williams
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The North-West Group Joan Leach
The Yorkshire Group Dudley Barlow
The Gaskell Society of Japan Mariko Tahira
Plymouth Grove Janet Allan
The 2005 Gaskell Society Conference Mary Hayes Kuhlman

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2006-7

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 19 (2005)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

ARTICLES

A Classical Introduction: introductions from early World's Classics Editions to the works of Elizabeth Gaskell Gwen Clarke

Violence and disorder in Elizabeth Gaskell's short stories Shirley Foster

Cousin Phillis: the art of the novella Barbara Hardy

Elizabeth Gaskell and the artisan naturalists of Manchester Anne Secord

It all began with Jane Eyre: the complex transatlantic web of women writers Jane Silvey

Goethe and Emerson in Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester Peter Skrine

To Cranford via Philadelphia Larry Uffelman

NOTES

Early Gaskell scholars (4) Adolphis William Ward 1837-1924 John A. V. Chapple

The new Complete Edition of the works of Elizabeth Gaskell Joanne Shattock

The Visual Life of Elizabeth Gaskell Elizabeth Williams on Tatsuhiro Ohno's web site

REVIEWS

Nicola Bown, Carolyn Burdett and Pamela Thurschwell, eds: The Victorian Supernatural Siv Jansson
Henrietta Garnett: Anny: A Life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie Angus Easson
Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South: The Norton Critical Edition, (2005), ed Alan Shelston Elizabeth Williams
Clare Pettitt: Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel Lorna Huett
Leonard Smith, ed: Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 Alan Shelston
Mariko Tahira: Gaskell no Manazashi (Gaskell's Sympathetic Gaze) Harumi James
Nancy S. Weyant: Elizabeth Gaskell: An Annotated Guide to English Language Sources, 1992-2001 Mary Haynes Kuhlman

REPORTS

The Society's Year Janet Allan
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
Activities in the North-West Joan Leach
The Gaskell Society of Japan Mariko Tahira
Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2005-6

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 18 (2004)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

ARTICLES

Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian Juvenilia Christine Alexander

The structure of Ruth: is the heroine's martyrdom inconsistent with the plot? Tatsuhiro Ohno (The Comprehensive Chronology of Ruth)

Sylvia's Lovers, then and now Marion Shaw

What's in a name? Echoes of biblical women in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth Jennifer Stolpa

'The Heart of John Middleton': a pilgrim's progress towards a new, feminized Christianity Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

Heroes and heroines and Sylvia's Lovers Dick Watson

NOTE

An early Gaskell scholar remembered. Professor Stanton Whitfield: a pioneer in the study of Elizabeth Gaskell in Japan Yuriko Yamawaki

REVIEWS

Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith, eds.: The Oxford Companion to the Brontæ Shirley Foster
Lynn Alexander: Women, Work, and Representation: Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature Patricia Zakreski
Roxanne Eberle: Chastity and Transgression in Women's Writing, 1792-1897 Siv Jansson
Francesco Marroni: Disarmonie vittoriane. Rivisitazioni del canone della narrativa inglese dell'Ottocento Saverio Tomaiuolo
Liana F. Piehler: Spatial Dynamics and Female Development in Victorian Art and Novels. Creating a Woman's Space Jacqueline Yallop
Tow new editions of Gaskell: Elizabeth Gaskell, Lois the Witch, foreword by Jenny Uglow, and Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, ed. Patricia Ingham Elizabeth Williams

REPORTS

The Gaskell Society Conference, 2003 Mary Haynes Kuhlman
Activities in the North West Elizabeth Williams
The London and South-East Group Frances Twinn
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The Gaskell Society of Japan Yuriko Yamawaki
The Society's Year Janet Allan
Good news about 84 Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2004-5

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 17 (2003)

CONTENTS

Gaskell on the Internet
Abbreviations
Editorial

ARTICLES

The imperial addiction of Mary Barton Liam Corley

History, science and social change: Elizabeth Gaskell's 'evolutionary' narratives Louise Henson

Commodity and collectivity: Cranford in the context of Household Words Lorna Huett

Gaskell's strategies of silence in 'The Half Brothers' Mitsuharu Matsuoka

Unwed orders: religious communities for women in the works of Elizabeth Gaskell Tonya Moutray McArthur

From Cranford to The Country of the Pointed Firs: Elizabeth Gaskell's American publication and the work of Sarah Orne Jewett Alan Shelston

From 'Martha Preston' to 'Half a Life-Time Ago': Elizabeth Gaskell rewrites a story Larry K. Uffelman

NOTES Gaskell scholars re-discovered: (2) Aina Rubenius Gunnel Melchers

Professor Francesco Marroni Alan Shelston

Bibliographical Notes

REVIEWS

Chiseki Asahi, ed.: Gaskell Shosetsu no Tabi (A Journey Through Gaskell's Novels) Harumi James
Josie Billington: Faithful Realism: Elizabeth Gaskell and Leo Tolstoy Shirley Goster
Eddie Cass and Morris Garratt, eds.: Printing and the Book in Manchester 1700-1850 Alan Shelston
Alisa Clapp-Itnyre: Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel C. M. Jackson-Houlston
Shirley Foster: Elizabeth Gaskell: A Literary Life Jenny Uglow
Jonathan H. Crossman: The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel Robert Barnard
John Law (Margaret Harkness): A Manchester Shirtmaker Alan Shelston
Barbara Todd: Harriet Martineau at Ambleside Valerie Sanders

OBITUARY Arthur Pollard John Chapple

REPORTS

The Society's Year Janet Allan
Activities in the North West Elizabeth Williams
The London and South-East Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The Gaskell Society of Japan Yuriko Yamawaki
A Gaskel Society Branch in North America? Lucy Magruder

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2003-4

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 16 (2002)

CONTENTS

Abbreviations
Bibliographical note
Editorial

ARTICLES

Seen in passing? Ian Campbell

Birds, bees and Darwinian survival strategies in Wives and Daughters Mary Debrabant

The 'Condition-of-England' debate and the 'Natural History of Man': an important scientific context for the social-problem fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell Louise Henson

The view from America: Annette Hopkins and Elizabeth Gaskell Jo Pryke

Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell Valerie Sanders

Geography and working-class women in Mary Barton and Sylvia's Lovers Shu Chuan Yan

Elizabeth Gaskell's subversive icon: motherhood and childhood in Ruth Anita C. Wilson

REVIEWS

Richard Gravil, ed. Master Narratives: Tellers and Telling in the English Novel Irene Wiltshire
Mitsuharu Matsuoka, ed. The World of Gaskell. A Many-faceted Attack on Victorian Society Hisako Nagase
Lucasta Miller. The Brontë Myth Robert Barnard
Barbara Onslow. Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain Judith Johnston
Joanne Shattock, ed. Women and Literature in Britain 1800-1900 Rosamund A. Paice
James Turner. The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton Alan Shelston

REPORTS

The Society's Year Janet Allan
The Gaskell Society Conference 17-20 August 2001
Activities in the North West Janet Allan
The London and South-East Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The Gaskell Society of Japan Yuriko Yamawaki
Plymouth Grove: a progress report Janet Allan

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2002-3

INDEX TO VOLUMES 1-16

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 15 (2001)

CONTENTS

Abbreviations
Bibliographical note
Editorial

ARTICLES

The religion of Elizabeth Gaskell Kay Millard

Is Mary Barton an industrial novel? Tatsuhiro Onho

From serial to novel: Elizabeth Gaskell assembles Round the Sofa Larry K. Uffelman

Navigational pitfalls and topographical constraints in Sylvia's Lovers Frances Twinn

Alligators infesting the stream: Elizabeth Gaskell and the USA Alan Shelston

NOTES

Gaskell scholars re-discovered: (1) Annette B. Hopkins Jo Pryke
Mrs Gaskell and France: a postscript Philip Yarrow

REVIEWS

John Chapple and Alan Shelston (eds): Further letters of Mrs Gaskell Margaret Smith
Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund: Victorian publishing and Mrs Gaskell's work Alan Shelston
Mary Lenard: Preaching pity: Dickens, Gaskell, and sentimentalism in Victorian culture Margaret Darby
Francesco Marroni: Silverdale Renzo D'Agnillo
Mitsu Matsuoka, ed. and trans.: A collection of Gaskell short stories Tatsuhiro Ohno
Linda H. Peterson: Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography: The poetics and politics of life writing Siv Janssen
Cecily O'Neill: Ruth, adapted as a play script, with resource material Rosemary Marshall
Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton, ed. Jennifer Foster (Broadview Literary Texts) Elizabeth Williams
A note on the new Everyman paperback edition of Ruth Jo Pryke

REPORTS

The Society's Year, 2000 Janet Allan
The Gaskell Society Belgian Tour, May 2000 Jean Alson
The London and South-East Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The Gaskell Society of Japan Yuriko Yamawaki
Gaskell Studies in Italy Anna Enrichetta Soccio
'This Bustling Life': The every-day story of Elizabeth Gaskell, a lady novelist An exhibition at the Special Collections Division of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 2000 Fran Baker
Plymouth Grove: a progress report Janet Allan

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 14 (2000)

CONTENTS

Abbreviations
Bibliographical note
Editorial

ARTICLES

The needle not the pen: Fabric (auto)biography in Cranford, Ruth, and Wives and Daughters Marie Fitzwilliam (PDF)

'We sit and read and dream our time away': Elizabeth Gaskell and the Portico Library Shirley Foster (PDF)

Becoming Mrs Gaskell Linda K Hughes and Michael Lund (PDF)

Gaskell Studies and the Internet in 1999 Mary Kuhlman (PDF)

Serialising Gaskell: from Household Words to The Cornhill Andrew Sanders

Women's Work: Victorian women workers and the press Joanne Shattock (PDF)

Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: the novel in progress Larry K. Uffelman (PDF)

Wives and Daughters on television Patsy Stoneman (PDF)

NOTES

The relevance of Gaskell for Japanese readers Chiyuki Kanamaru (PDF)
Round the software: post, nostalgia and post-nostalgia on the Gaskell discussion list David Kellog (PDF)

REVIEWS

Barbara Leah Harman: The feminine political novel in Victorian England Sally Ledger
C. M. Jackson-Houlston: Ballads, songs and snatches: The appropriation of folk song and popular culture in British nineteenth-century realist prose Ruth McDowell Cook
Walter Smith: Elizabeth Gaskell: a bibliographical catalogue Alan Shelston
K. D. M. Snell (ed): The regional novel in Britain and Ireland 1880-1990 Alan Shelston
Susan Zlotnick: Women, writing and the industrial revolution Josephine M. Guy

REPORTS

The Society's Year, 1999 Janet Allan
The London Conference Val Salisbury
The London and South-East Group Dudley Barlow
The South-West of England Group Rosemary Marshall
The Gaskell Society of Japan Yuriko Yamawaki
Gaskell Studies in Italy Mariaconcetta Costantini
84 Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 13 (1999)

CONTENTS

Abbreviations
Bibliographical note
Editorial 'Globalising Gaskell'

ARTICLES

Faithful realism: Ruskin and Gaskell Josie Billington

Elizabeth Gaskell on French literary ladies of the seventeenth century: Madame de Sablé and Madame de Sévigné Alain Jumeau

A survey of Gaskell scholarship, or: Things written recently about Gaskell Mary Kuhlman (PDF)

Madame Mohl and Mrs Gaskell Margaret Lesser

'The Power of Giving': Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth and the politics of benevolence Pam Parker

Wales and the Welsh in Gaskell's Fiction: sex, sorrow and sense Jo Pryke (PDF)

The culture of self improvement: real people in Mary Barton Terry Wyke

NOTES

North and South: East or West? Fang Li (PDF)
Sylvia's Lovers: a translator's note Tatsuhiro Ohno
The death of Willy Gaskell Dewi Williams
Elizabeth Gaskell' correspondence: A supplementary edition John Chapple and Alan Shelston
Gaskell studies in France Caroline Arnaud
Our links with French Gaskell scholars Peter Skrine
Articles published in Gaskell Society Journal, Vols 1-13 Mitsuharu Matsuoka

REVIEWS

Deirdre d'Albertis: Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text Liz Hedgecock
Megan Perigoe-Stitt: Metaphors of Change in the Language of Nineteenth Century Fiction: Scott, Gaskell and Kingsley Liz Hedgecock
Stephen Gill: Wordsworth and the Victorians Alan Shelston
Josephine M Guy (ed): The Victorian Age: An Anthology of sources and documents Alan Shelston
Deborah Anna Logan: Fallenness in Victorian Women's Writing Shirley Foster
Harriet Devine Jump (ed): Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women: A Routledge Anthology Jackie Pearson
Tatsuhiro Ohno: Sylvia's Lovers translated into Japanese Harumi James

REPORTS

The Society's Year, 1998 Joan Leach
The Gaskell Society Paris Trip Christine Bhatt
The London and South East Group Dudley Barlow
The Gaskell Society of Japan Dr Yuriko Yamawaki
Gaskell Studies in Italy
South West of England Group
84 Plymouth Grove Janet Allan

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 12 (1998)

CONTENTS

Abbreviations and Bibliographical note
Editorial
84 Plymouth Grove
Letters of Mrs Gaskell volume 2

Elizabeth Gaskell and her German Stories Peter Skrine

Calvin's encounter with Cinderella: vital antinomies in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Curious, If True' (1860) Peter Stiles

'Curious, If True': suggesting more Janice K Kirkland

Mr Harrison's Confessions: a study of the general practitioner's social and professional dis-ease Marie Fitzwilliam

Fact or fiction, the acid test: Gaskell, Mary Barton and the vitriol Valerie Smith

In harm's way: tolerating intolerance in Elizabeth Gaskell's fiction Suzy Clarkson Holstein

NOTES
Four states of the printed endpapers in Mrs Gaskell's Ruth Walter E Smith
Six Weeks in Heppenheim as seen from Heppenheim, edited and translated by Celia Skrine

REVIEWS
Gaskell in German: some new translations: Sechs Wochen in Heppenheim; Erzahlungen; Frauen und Tochter Peter Skrine
John Chapple Elizabeth Gaskell the Early Years Andrew Sanders
Patsy Stoneman Bronte Transformations: the cultural dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights Shirley Foster
Elizabeth Gaskell The Lift of Charlotte Bronte and Ruth, both edited by Angus Easson; Donald Hawes Who's Who in Dickens Alan Shelston

REPORTS
The Society's year Alison Foster
London and South-East Group Dudley Barlow
Gaskell studies in Italy Mariaconcetta Costantini
Gaskell Society of Japan in 1997 Dr Yuriko Yamawaki
Gaskell Society Chester conference Mary Kuhlman
In the footsteps of Elizabeth Gaskell in Germany 6-12 May 1997 Peter and Celia Skrine

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 11 (1997)

CONTENTS

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 10 (1996)

CONTENTS

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 9 (1995)

CONTENTS

  • Bibliographical Note
  • Editor's Notes and News
  • Marianne McLeod Gilchrist,
    The Shaw family of Staten Island: Elizabeth Gaskell's American friends
  • Mary Waters
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Conduct Books: Mrs Gibson as the product of a conventional education in Wives and Daughters
  • William J Hyde
    'Poor Frederick' and 'Poor Peter': Elizabeth Gaskell's fraternal deviants
  • Deborah A Logan
    'An unfit subject for fiction': Elizabeth Gaskell and the duty of silence
  • Marion Shaw
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Tennyson and the fatal return: Sylvia's Lovers and Enoch Arden
  • Wendy Craik
    'Man, vain man' in Susan Ferrier, Margaret Oliphant and Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Notes and Commentary
  • London reports
  • Reviews
  • Notes on Contributors

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 8 (1994)

CONTENTS

  • Bibliographical Note
  • Editor's Notes and News
  • Anna Unsworth,
    Elizabeth Gaskell and German Romanticism
  • Marie Fitzwilliam,
    The politics behind the angel: separate spheres in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lizzie Leigh
  • Harumi James,
    Secrecy in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cousin Phillis
  • J A V Chapple,
    William Stevenson and the Edinburgh literary scene
  • Christine Alexander,
    Readers and writers: Blackwood's and the Brontës
  • Douglas S Mack,
    James Hogg, Elizabeth Gaskell and the tradition of oral storytelling
  • David Finkelstein,
    Early nineteenth-century Scottish publishing
  • Rosalind Slater,
    The novelist's use of dialect
  • Ian Campbell,
    Scottish writers and the Industrial Revolution
  • Notes and Commentary
  • Reviews
  • A Presidential Perspective (J G Sharps)
  • The Gaskell Year (Joan Leach)
  • In Memoriam
  • Notes on Contributors

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 7 (1993)

CONTENTS

  • Bibliographical Note
  • Editor's Notes and News
  • Jeanette Eve,
    The Floral and Horticultural in Elizabeth Gaskell's Novels
  • Philip Yarrow
    Mrs Gaskell and France
  • Peter Skrine
    Mrs Gaskell and Germany
  • Kristine Swenson
    Protection or Restriction? Women's Labour in Mary Barton
  • Anita C. Wilson
    Mother and Writer: A Study of Elizabeth Gaskell's Diary
  • Reviews
  • Notes on Contributors

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 6 (1992)

CONTENTS

  • Bibliographical Note
  • Editor's Notes and News
  • Arthur Pollard,
    Elizabeth Gaskell's young women
  • Andrew Sanders
    Varieties of Religious Experience in Sylvia's Lovers
  • Michael Wheeler
    Elizabeth Gaskell and Unitarianism
  • K. J. Fielding
    The Sceptical Carlyles and the Unitarian Mrs Gaskell
  • Peter Stiles
    Grace, Redemption and the 'Fallen Woman': Ruth and Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • J A V Chapple
    Two Unpublished Gaskell Letters from Burrow Hall, Lancashire
  • Eva Ahsberg Borromeo
    Maria Edgeworth, Fredrika Bremer and Elizabeth Gaskell: Sources for Wives and Daughters
  • Janet Allan: The Scarborough Conference: 1991
  • Notes on Contributors

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 5 (1991)

CONTENTS

  • Notes on Contributors
  • Editor's Notes and News
  • Edward Chitham,
    Elizabeth Stevenson's Schooldays
  • Brenda Colloms
    "Tottie" Fox, Her Life and Background
  • Barbara Brill and Alan Shelston
    Manchester: 'A Behindhand Place for Books': The Gaskells and the Portico Library
  • Thomas E Recchio
    A Victorian Version of the Fall: Mrs Gaskell's Cousin Phillis and the Domestication of Myth
  • Anna Unsworth
    Some Social Themes in Wives and Daughters: (2) The Social Values of the 1860s and 'Old England' Compared
  • P J Yarrow
    Mrs Gaskell and Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Jeanette Eve
    Elizabeth Stevenson and Harriet Carr: A Note
  • Alison Foster
    A Personal View of the First Joint Brontë/Gaskell Conference
  • Reviews and Notices

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 4 (1990)

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 3 (1989)

CONTENTS

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 2 (1988)

CONTENTS

  • Notes on Contributors
  • Editorial
  • Jane Spencer,
    Mary Barton and Thomas Carlyle
  • Wendy Craik
    Lore, Learning and Wisdom: Workers and Education in Mary Barton and North and South
  • Enid Duthie
    Echoes of the French Revolution in the Work of Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Alan Shelston
    The Moorland Cottage: Elizabeth Gaskell and Myles Birket Foster
  • Christine Lingard
    The Gaskell Collection in Manchester Central Library
  • Thomas Recchio
    The Pinkerton and the Jenkyns Sisters: A Literary Source for Cranford
  • Patsy Stoneman
    Elizabeth Gaskell and 'Maternal Thinking'
  • Annual General Meeting, 1987
    • Francesco Marroni: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Art of the Novel
    • Yuriko Yamawaki: Gaskell Studies in Japan
  • Recent Publications

The Gaskell Society Journal
VOLUME 1 (1987)

CONTENTS

  • Notes on Contributors
  • Editorial
  • J A V Chapple,
    William Stevenson and Elizabeths Gaskell
  • Thomas Recchio
    Cranford and the 'lawe of kynde'
  • P M Yarrow
    The Chronology of Cranford
  • Barbara Brill
    My year Mr. Norton
  • Francesco Marroni
    Gaskell Studies in Italy
  • Bill Ruddick
    George Du Maurier: Illustrator and Interpreter of Mrsl Gaskell.
  • Recent Publication

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