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Two Hundred Years of a Literary Life: Elizabeth Gaskell

This September, Special Collections presents “Two Hundred Years of a Literary Life,” a small exhibit honoring Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, who was born September 29, 1810.  Gaskell’s novels and stories of class struggles and women’s experience in mid-nineteenth century England have seen a surge in popularity over the past two decades.  A number of her …

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Recent acquisitions: British women writers

Recent additions to Special Collections’ Victorian and Edwardian Literature Collections include works by Alice Meynell and May Sinclair, two women writers whose careers spanned the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Alice Meynell (1847-1922) began her career as a poet.  She was also an essayist and literary critic.  After her marriage, she assisted her husband in …

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