Historians have long treated Elizabeth Gaskell as a gossip after her 1857 Brontë biography led to a public retraction.

Brontë specialist Graham Watson says that admission was false and that she was a whistleblower silenced by those she tried to expose.

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Many thanks to #ElizabethGaskellsHouse for a delightful morning on their new #CharlotteBrontë & #ElizabethGaskell Tour. It was a treat to get to explore this lovely #Victorian home as we heard stories about the special friendship between these two extraordinary #authors.

#ElizabethGaskell was born #OnThisDay in 1810, becoming a novelist & short story writer with a sharp proto-feminist critique of gender & class in #Victorian #England in novels such as #Cranford; she certainly understood the need for a woman's independence from men~!
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Elizabeth Gaskell really said, books are cake for the brain, and frankly, I see no reason to improve upon that philosophy. 📚🍰

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#29Septiembre Tal día de 1810 nacía #ElizabethGaskell Pasó a la historia por ‘Norte y Sur’ y ‘Cranford’ y por escribir ‘Vida de Charlotte Brontë’, que desató la fiebre por leer a las hermanas Brontë y ahondar en su mito. En #Cúmulosylimbos más cositas cumulosylimbos.blogspot.com/2026/09/viaj...

"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."

✒ #ElizabethGaskell, English author, was #BOTD 29 September 1810. #Literature

Gnaeus Pompeius (106 BCE), Michael Servetus (1511), Miguel de Cervantes (1547), Michale Merisi da Caravaggio (1571), Robert Clive (1725), Horatio Nelson (1758), #ElizabethGaskell (1810), Enrico Fermi (1901), Silvio Berlusconi (1936) & Michelle Bachelet (1951) were born #OnThisDay...

A superb online talk by associate professor @jendeavour.bsky.social who brilliantly covered the Gothic and ghostly tales of Elizabeth Gaskell.

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Next meeting of the Gaskell Society (and by recording) is coming up on Sat 19 Sept. Helen Shay will discuss Gaskell’s relationship with her publishers, including Dickens. See below for details! #Dickens #ElizabethGaskell #Victorian #publishing