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On the surface, she was the ideal Victorian wife and mother, a 19th-century domestic goddess. The clue was in the name she used on her books - not Elizabeth Gaskell but Mrs Gaskell. It distinguished ...

If you need proof that Americans are different from Brits, you need look no further than “Cranford.”(TV_series) The star-studded series -- Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce -- ...

Cranford, the BBC's popular costume drama, has helped to save the house where Elizabeth Gaskell wrote the novel on which it was based. After decades of slow decline, work is to start on a £3 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jackie Tucker, a volunteer gardener at the newly restored home of Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell Credit: Photo: Joel Chester Fildes Sitting in her usual writing spot in the dining room, ...

The house of Cranford author Elizabeth Gaskell is opening its doors after a £2.5m refurbishment that has returned it to the style of the writer's era. The 19th Century villa in Manchester had fallen ...

On the surface, she was the ideal Victorian wife and mother, a 19th-century domestic goddess. The clue was in the name she used on her books - not Elizabeth Gaskell but Mrs Gaskell. It distinguished ...