The Gaskell Journal

The Gaskell Journal – Volume 39 (2025)

Shirley Foster

Elizabeth Gaskell and Nineteenth-Century Women’s Travel Writing

Nicole Cundiff

‘I had rather that she blamed Drumble and me than disfigured herself with a turban’: The Commodified Orient in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford

Kristyn Woytkewicz

‘I must go and seek our Lizzie’: Parables of Searching and the Redemption of Fallen Women in Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Lizzie Leigh’

Jasmine Tenshult

A Swedish Translator’s Reflections on Time and Place in Mary Barton – A Tale of Manchester Life

REVIEWS

Rebecca Styler, The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature. New York and London: Routledge, 2024.
Angharad Eyre 

Ben Moore, Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Karin Koehler 

Livia Arndal Woods, Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2023.
Charlotte Wilson 

Katie R. Peel, Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024.
Emma Probett