Mrs Gaskell and Miss Betty Barker’s Alderney Cow
This must be one of the best known and best loved stories from Cranford: An old lady had an Alderney cow, which she looked on as a daughter. You could not pay the short quarter-of-an-hour call, without being told of the wonderful
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The right words in the right order…
The background: the House has been successful in securing funding from the Arts Council for a collaborative programme of arts activities which includes a series of creative writing workshops. Here, Ben Cassidy, who is attending the programme, describes his experience of the second session.
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Sir Joseph Paxton
Sir Joseph Paxton has returned to the garden. To be accurate it is the rose named after him that has returned. Here he is (with his small green admirers!) The rose was planted in the garden because Elizabeth Gaskell met Sir Joseph
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Finding Breathing Space at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
As part of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Heritage Lottery funded project celebrating the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth St Luke’s Art Project have been invited to run some workshops in the house, garden and Swinton Grove Park (land which used to belong to the house
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What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon..
What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than sitting with an interesting group of people discussing one of Mrs Gaskell's short stories? Especially one that contains a murder! First serialised in Charles Dickens's weekly literary periodical ‘All the Year Round’, it
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