Elizabeth Gaskell – Selected Works

Literature

Residential course

Greta Depledge

10 June 2022 to 12 June 2022

From £240 Non-residential fee

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Description

Elizabeth Gaskell is best known as the author of a number of novels including Cranford and North and South. She is also known as friend of Charlotte Bronte and she wrote the first biography of Charlotte. This course will explore a number of novels written by this author who used her fiction to respond to the increasing industrialisation of the time. Her fiction explores issues of class, position of women, town vs country and provides readers with gripping story lines and compelling characterisation.

The novels we will discuss will be Mary Barton, Ruth and North and South. Students would find it helpful to have a copy of these texts with them for the duration of the course.

Residential Fees From: £358.   Non Residential: £240

Course runs from Dinner on Friday to Lunch on Sunday.

Tutor information

Dr Greta Depledge has a BA (Hons) in English Literature, an MA in Victorian Studies and a PhD (Female maladies, medical practice and literary culture 1860-1900), awarded by Birkbeck College, University of London.
Greta has many years’ experience in teaching, tutoring and lecturing roles in a wide range of HE and FE establishments. She delivers meticulously prepared courses with enthusiasm in an atmosphere that is relaxed and cheerful whilst intellectually challenging. She presents her research at public lectures and at academic conferences and has written a number of journal articles, chapters for academic collections and edited essays collections. .

Greta has worked as a Visiting Lecturer and Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, as an Associate Tutor for the Open University, as a Visiting Tutor for the Centre for Continuing Education at Reading University and at the Faculty for Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck College, University of London and as a Tutor for the WEA.

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