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