Knutsford Guardian: Knutsford pub featured in Gaskell's Cranford has £350k makeover
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Her only biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was controversial and significant in establishing the Brontë f…
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culture · English novelist, biographer, and short story writer (1810–1865) · writer · novelist · biographer · also Elizabeth Gaskell, Mrs. Gaskell, née Stevenson, Elizabeth (Cleghorn) Gaskell, Gaskell
Born 29 September 1810 · Died 12 November 1865 · Q229226
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
The Bolton News: Elizabeth Gaskell's House to host Victorian Christmas
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Mrs Gaskell & Me by Nell Stevens review – desire, satire and making things up
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: Elizabeth Gaskell: Charlotte Brontë's unlikely defender against prurient gossip
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The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 63 – The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell (1857)
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Elizabeth Gaskell’s rare Victorian villa reopens after £2.5m restoration
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester home to get £2.5m restoration
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2010· 1 entry
A memorial to Gaskell was unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey
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2007· 1 entry
A five part serialisation of her novel Cranford starring Judi Dench aired on BBC television
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2004· 1 entry
A television film miniseries aired on BBC television of her 1854 novel North and South
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1969· 1 entry
And in 2004 it was acquired by the Manchester Historic Buildings Trust, which then raised money to restore it
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1928· 1 entry
A donor offered £50, or £100 if it was named thus: the conversation is recorded by novelist Willie Riley in his autobiography
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1865· 3 entries
Died 1865-11-12.
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While visiting a house she had purchased in Holybourne, Hampshire
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“A Column of Gossip from Paris”
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1859· 1 entry
Gaskell travelled to Whitby to gather material for Sylvia's Lovers, which was published in 1863
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1857· 2 entries
Was controversial and significant in establishing the Brontë family's lasting fame
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A significant development in Gaskell's literary career
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1854· 1 entry
Defended her use of dialect to express otherwise inexpressible concepts in a letter to Walter Savage Landor:
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1850· 1 entry
The Gaskells moved to a villa at 84 Plymouth Grove
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1848· 1 entry
With the publication of her story Christmas Storms and Sunshine
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1847· 1 entry
As Libbie Marsh's Three Eras, in Howitt's Journal, under the pseudonym "Cotton Mather Mills"
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1843· 1 entry
The Gaskells took holidays at Silverdale on Morecambe Bay, and in particular stayed at Lindeth Tower
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1840· 1 entry
William Howitt published Visits to Remarkable Places containing a contribution entitled Clopton Hall by "A Lady", the first work written and published solely by her
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1836· 1 entry
Co-authored with her husband a cycle of poems, Sketches among the Poor, which was published in Blackwood's Magazine in January 1837
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1810· 1 entry
Born 1810-09-29.
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1806· 1 entry
On the understanding that he would be appointed private secretary to James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, who was to become Governor General of India
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