Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell and their literary house

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Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell and their literary house

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell – Your Short Season of Events

Back by popular demand, Elizabeth Gaskell's House and the Brontë Parsonage Museum have a new short season of online events throughout May 2024 looking at the friendship between two remarkable literary women, Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell. The first in the series

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Four women writers

International Women’s Day

We're going all out to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) this year with local, national and international events (either in person or online) to mark this special day. International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements

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Actresses in the tv adaptation in 1830s dress

Wives and Daughters: An exciting events programme for you in 2024

'Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.' Wives and Daughters was Elizabeth Gaskell's last, and unfinished, novel. It has been called ‘the most underrated novel in English’. The story centers on young Molly’s response

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‘We are in another world, with the greatest novelists’ – Wives and Daughters

This season of events at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House examines Elizabeth’s last, and for many her greatest novel, Wives and Daughters, published in monthly instalments from August 1864 to January 1866. Sadly, Elizabeth’s death on November 17 1865 meant that the final chapter was left unfinished.

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August is the Sunday of Summer

Autumn Events from Elizabeth Gaskell's House We’re enjoying the last of the summer with days out and the odd bit of sunshine, but you don’t need to look too closely to spot the signs that autumn is on its way. The blackberries

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