Listen to The Old Nurse’s Story
Listen to a dramatized reading recorded live from the Drawing Room at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House on Sunday 2 February 2020. https://elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/the-old-nurses-story-dramatized-reading/ Organised, read and performed by Elizabeth Gaskell’s House volunteers: Scripted and directed by Diane DuffyDiana Ashcroft – Miss Grace FurnivalChris Bamber
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s Home in Hampshire, Part 3 – Holybourne, The Last Chapter
She is laid in Knutsford Chapel yard, by the aunt who was a mother to her The last chapter of the Lawn’s historic connections with Elizabeth Gaskell is shrouded in mystery as the property was not registered with the Land Registry until
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s Home in Hampshire, Part 2 – The Lawn, Holybourne
…in a very pretty garden Historic England describes The Lawn as an early nineteenth-century, two storey building. In 1829 it was occupied by William Barlow who owned several properties in Holybourne. Ten years later, William Barlow was dead, and in 1852 The
Read more »NEW podcast from Bonnets at Dawn about Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
https://youtu.be/1OoqizhOyDA Join Hannah and Lauren (aka Bonnets at Dawn) for the first Podcast in their new Literary Houses Mini-Series. Featuring an update from the House Manager, Sally, on our plans for 2020. N.B - the interview with Sally took place at the
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s Home in Hampshire, Part 1
a little country house for Papa to “retire” to... One question that volunteers are regularly asked by visitors to Elizabeth Gaskell’s House is, ‘Where did Elizabeth Gaskell die?’. The answer is Hampshire; at a small village called Holybourne, situated not too far
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