Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved portrait of life in a small town and its female inhabitants. Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved portrait of life in a small town and its female inhabitants. Mrs Gaskell’s much ...

When Max Hollein was tapped last year to became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, it marked a new milestone in a fast-rising career that has seen many of them.

She was later published under the name “Mrs Gaskell” which was a turn-off because it made her sound too safe, and she faded from relevance. Later critics derided her for being “feminine ...

She has stood where Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson married the Unitarian minister who would give her the respectable title of Mrs Gaskell (the Rev William Gaskell, at St John s parish church because Non ...

Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved portrait of life in a small town and its female inhabitants. Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved portrait of life in a small town and its female inhabitants. Mrs Gaskell’s much ...