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Pre-booking your visit to Elizabeth Gaskell’s House is now essential

What’s On

  • All
  • 10-year Anniversary
  • Exhibition
  • Family Friendly
  • Performance
  • Talks
  • Tour
  • Workshops

Textile Art Celebrating Trailblazing Women

4th January - 31st October

Exhibition of textile work created by the Trailblazing Stitching group.

International Women’s Day 2026

26th February - 25th March

Online Talk: I Blame the Mother

Wed 18 March

Online Talk: I Blame the Mother

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Online Book Group

Third Thursday of the month

We read (and re-read) classic works of fiction. New members welcome.

Online Reading Workshop – The Gothic – Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Repeat)

Thursday 26 March, 7-9pm

Online Reading Workshop - The Gothic - Wuthering Heights (Repeat)

Easter Family Fun

29 March - 19 April

Easter Family Activities

Online Reading Workshop – The Gothic – The Nurses’ Story and The Poor Clare by Elizabeth Gaskell

Wed 8 April, 7-9pm

Online Gothic - The Old Nurse's Story and The Poor Clare

Second-Hand Book Sale – BOGOF

Second Sunday of the month (Jan- Oct)

Second-hand book sale on every second Sunday of the month.

Online Talk: North and South across the Atlantic – Elizabeth Gaskell’s Influence in Nineteenth-Century America

Wed 15 April

Online Talk: North and South in America

Online Talk: The Invention of Charlotte Brontë – Elizabeth Gaskell and her Infamous Brontë Biography

Wednesday 22 April, 7-8pm

Online Talk: The Invention of Charlotte Brontë

Online Talk: Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell- A Friendship

Wed 29 April, 7-8pm

Online Talk : Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell Friendship

Online Event: From the Dashwoods to Cranford – Sisterhood in the Worlds of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell

Sunday 3 May, 8-9pm

Online event: The Dashwoods to Cranford

Online Talk: ‘I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free’ – Emily and Anne Brontë

Wednesday 6 May, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Emily and Ann Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell

Online Reading Workshop – The Gothic – Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Wed 13 May, 7-9pm

Online Gothic - Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Online Talk: South and North Rather than North and South: Ellen Wilkinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and the ‘Big Strike’ novel

Wed 20 May

Online Talk: South and North rather than North and South

Online Talk: Cranford – A TV Classic

Wednesday 3 June

Online event: Cranford TV Classic

National Open Garden Scheme

Saturday 13 June

Elizabeth Gaskell's Garden Open Day

Online Talk: Step into the Garden – The Language of Flowers in Cranford and other novels

Wednesday 17 June, 7-8pm

Online Take: Language of Flowers

Online Talk: Cranford For Beginners

Wed 24 June, 7-8pm

Online Talk - Cranford for Beginners

Online Talk – Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic Fiction: An Introduction

Wednesday 16 September, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Fiction

Online Talk: Mothers of the Gothic – Writing the Supernatural

Wednesday 30 September, 7-8pm

Online Talk - Mothers of the Gothic

Online Talk: Mary Shelley Beyond Frankenstein

Wednesday 7 October, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Mary Shelley Beyond Frankenstein

The Cultural Welcome

7-11 October

Free events for students with The Cultural Welcome

Online Talk: The Shadows of Salem – Myth V Reality in Lois the Witch and Other Tales

Wednesday 14 October, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Shadows of Salem- Lois the Witch

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V Anne Brontë – Monsters and Madmen

Wednesday 21 October, 7-8pm

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V Anne Bronte - Monsters and Madmen

Online Talk: Victorian Gothic – Haunted Houses and Night-time Terrors

Wednesday 28 October, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Victorian Gothic Fiction

Christmas at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

See our beautiful House decked out in Christmas splendour.

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V George Eliot – The Moorland Cottage V The Mill on the Floss

Wednesday 18 November, 7-8pm

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V George Eliot

a whispering of leaves and perfume of flowers always pervaded the rooms

Charlotte Brontë, on visiting 84 Plymouth Grove