Recent acquisition for our personal library:

๐Ÿ“– Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

#bookstodon #gaskell

Browsing the newly published details of Charles Darwin's library more. Impressed to see novels in there - that's relatively unusual for a private library of this era. Many Dickens, many Gaskell. He also had works by Babbage, Mary Somerville and my g..uncle-in-law Charles Maclaren. http://darwin-online.org.uk/Complete_Library_of_Charles_Darwin.html #HistoryOfScience #BookHistory #Books #Bookstodon #Libraries #Reading #Darwin #CharlesDarwin #Science #Novels #Babbage #Dickens #CharlesBabbage #CharlesDickens #ElizabethGaskell #Gaskell

Write what moves you.

Folklore, gothic lit, social novels set at a vigorous YA pace entwined with nature, keeps my #writing flow in motion.

Influenced by reading #JillyCooper #Dickens #Austen #Bronte #Gaskell #JayKristoff #Paolini #AnneRice #Rowling

What lights your fire?

Today I have to grade 14 more essays; we begin my last M1 course on Death and Health in #Dickens; and I need to prep for my undergrad classes tomorrow where weโ€™re reading #Gaskell and #Edgeworth
Tomorrow we start #Gaskellโ€™s Ruth in our #DisabilityStudies course. Get excited.
Tomorrow my classes are starting #Gaskellโ€™s North and South and #Shelleyโ€™s #Frankenstein. Absolutely pumped!
The Provincial Fiction of Mitford, Gaskell and Eliot

Considers the interrelated careers of three significant nineteenth-century writers who have never been extensively studied together

I asked my #LiteratureAndMedicine students what text they would get rid of if they had to get rid of oneโ€”they didnโ€™t want to get rid of any of them. They all saw valuable things in #Gaskellโ€™s North and South, #Austenโ€™s Persuasion, #Edgeworthโ€™s Belinda