Meet the Team – Lucy
Over the coming weeks we will be introducing everyone from our small staff team at Elizabeth Gaskell's House, and getting them to answer some questions about working at the House. Lucy Green is our Wedding and Hires Manager. Lucy joined the staff
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Meet the Team – Lynda
Over the coming weeks we will be introducing everyone from our small staff team at Elizabeth Gaskell's House, and getting them to answer some questions about working at the House. Lynda Jackson is our Events Manager and has worked at Elizabeth Gaskell's
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Wilkie Collins
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Wilkie Collins (1824 -1889), author and great friend of Charles Dickens, fell on 8 January 2024. In 1855, in a letter to Louis Hachette, a French publisher of novels translated from English, Elizabeth Gaskell writes;
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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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Elizabeth, William and the gift of poetry at Christmas…
One of our most precious items in Elizabeth Gaskell's House is the Keats poetry book (pictured open, on the left in the photo above) given as a gift, fondly inscribed by William to Elizabeth on December 25th 1854. The book was sold
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