The New Yorker

Review: Nell Stevens’s “The Victorian and the Romantic,” a Love Letter to Mrs. Gaskell

Admittedly, I am at the center of the demographic most likely to enjoy a memoir about having a passionate attachment to a female Victorian novelist, but “The Victorian and the Romantic,” a new book by ...
NPR

Excerpt: The Brontes

Yet another biography of the Brontes requires an apology, or at least an explanation. Their lives have been written so many times that there ought to be nothing left to say. Mrs. Gaskell's Life of ...
Bustle

This New Memoir Imagines What It Would Be Like To Be BFFs With Your Favorite Dead Author

You’ll be able to recognize Nell Stevens’ writing for two qualities: one, her books are blend of memoir and fiction, memoir and research, memoir and history; and two, she’s a writer who’s great at ...
The New York Times

CHARLOTTE BRONTE.; Mrs. Gaskell's Biography of Her, with Notes and Other New Matter from Mr. Shorter.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Time

Books: The Parson’s Daughters

THE BRONTË STORY (368 pp.)—Margaret Lane—Duell-Little ($5). It is almost 100 years since an English novelist named Elizabeth Gaskell found herself journeying to a sleepy parsonage in Yorkshire, where ...
The New York Times

SOME NEW EDITIONS.; Mrs. Gaskell Sympathetically Edited -- George Eliot and Others in Special Literary Dress. Some New Editions.

SOME NEW EDITIONS.; Mrs. Gaskell Sympathetically Edited -- George Eliot and Others in Special Literary Dress. Some New Editions. Dec. 15, 1906 The New York Times Archives See the article in its ...