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Arts Diary: Book your place for an audience with Mrs Gaskell.(Features)

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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20050110
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Byline: PHILIP KEY

SHE was actually born in Chelsea. But the Cheshire town of Knutsford will be for ever associated with the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, or simply Mrs Gaskell as she became known to her readers.

It was in Knutsford that she was brought up by an aunt (the house still stands) and on which she based her best known novel Cranford.

That book, originally written in serialised form for Charles Dickens's Household Words, has never been out of print since it was first published in 1853.

A gentle tale of female life in the prim world of an English ...

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