A digital collection of Elizabeth Gaskell’s work has been launched to mark the 150th anniversary of the Victorian author’s death. The University of Manchester Library have digitising Gaskell’s works ...

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The exhibition includes a map of locations which inspired the writer An exhibition investigating how a 19th Century novelist depicted her native city has opened at her former home. Elizabeth Gaskell, ...

"Nature," wrote the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell in a letter to a friend in 1854, "intended me for a gypsy-bachelor; that I am sure of. Not an old maid, for they are particular and fidgety, and tidy, ...

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 ...

The book published by Ofoq in Tehran has been rendered into Persian by Samin Nabipur. The book tells the story of Margaret Hale, who is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her ...

The Manchester home of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell opens to the public on Sunday after a £2.5m restoration. The 19th Century novelist wrote Cranford, North and South, and Wives and ...

It is 170 years since Elizabeth Gaskell first published her most popular work Cranford but thanks to more recent period dramas, the author's novels are seeing a surge of interest from new, young fans.