Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens Collection launches on Manchester Digital Collections
19th-century writers Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens are united in our new digital collection.
19th-century writers Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens are united in our new digital collection.
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, Special Collections Librarian, Julie Ramwell, looks at his relationship with Manchester.
I am pleased to announce that a collection of 31 letters written by Charles Dickens is now available for accessContinue Reading
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