The Gaskell Society Committee
President
Alan Shelston
Honorary Research Fellow at the John Rylands University Library
Until his retirement he was Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester. He has edited a number of Gaskell's work for paperback editions, including Life of Charlotte Brontë, Ruth, Mary Barton and a 'Norton Student Edition' of North and South. With John Chapple he is the joint editor of Further Letters of Mrs Gaskell (MUP, 2000). He was the first editor of The Gaskell Society Journal, to which he has contributed several articles. His current work involves a study of Elizabeth Gaskell's connections, personal, literary and publishing, with the USA.
Vice President
Francesco Marroni
Professor of English "G. S Annunzio" University, Pescara, Italy, where he is Director of the Centro Studi Vittoriani e Edoardiani.
Author of books on George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Henry James and Elizabeth Gaskell. He is a distinguished writer of short fiction in his own country, and has published several volumes of his stories.
Vice President
Jenny Uglow
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Editorial Director Chatto and Windus
Author Elizabeth Gaskell a Habit of Stories, Hogarth, Cultural Babbage, The Lunar Men; BBC Classic Serial historical consultant. Reviews for radio TLS, Sunday Times and Guardian
Chairwoman
Elizabeth Williams
Retired Further Education teacher, organiser and regular speaker at Knutsford meetings
Vice Chairwoman
Janet Allen
Hon Secretary
Joan Leach MBE
Founder of the Gaskell Society, local historian and noted Knutsford celebrity; Founder of Knutsford Literature Festival
Hon Treasurer
Brian Williams
Journal Editor
Frances Twinn
Membership Secretary
Christine Lingard
Minutes Secretary
Mary Clark
Committee Members
Pam Griffiths
Janet Kennerley
Philip Morey
Ann O’Brien
Judith Rees
Mary Syner
Ann Waddington
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