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.
Tag: Elizabeth Gaskell
A Tale of Two Cities
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, Special Collections Librarian, Julie Ramwell, looks at his relationship with Manchester.
Digitisation of Letters by Charles Dickens in the Elizabeth Gaskell Collection
I am pleased to announce that a collection of 31 letters written by Charles Dickens is now available for accessContinue Reading
Charlotte Brontë letter filmed for BBC iWonder
In a week of major literary anniversaries, The John Rylands Library features in a short BBC iWonder video, released toContinue Reading
A Doctor’s View of Industrial Manchester
“The lodge-keeper admitted them into a great oblong yard, on one side of which were offices for the transaction ofContinue Reading
Facial recognition software solves Elizabeth Gaskell mystery
On the 150th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth Gaskell (on 12 November 1865), a mystery surrounding the true identity ofContinue Reading
Breaking News from the Guardian Archive
Jane Speller, Project Archivist for the Guardian Archive foreign correspondence cataloguing project, writes: Following our visit earlier this year to theContinue Reading
Photo a Day #05
Elizabeth Gaskell’s House reopens today! Visit the website for more info here. You can also view some of Elizabeth Gaskell’sContinue Reading
A Man of Letters and Words
Jane Speller writes: This final blog about the Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth Archive cataloguing project looks at his literary interests.Continue Reading
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Inbox
We recently entered our Carcanet Press Email Preservation Project for one of this year’s Digital Preservation Awards. Each institution wasContinue Reading