Dame Mabel Tylecote
William Gaskell’s study is home to a collection of mainly 19th Century books which have reached Elizabeth Gaskell’s House through a variety of purchases and donations. I am currently creating an inventory of these books, which includes a note of any inscriptions
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Conservation Cleaning Training
On Monday morning, a few of our volunteers gathered at the house to learn about preventative conservation. The morning was led by Nettie Cook, a freelance conservationist and specialist on furniture restoration, who has worked extensively with the National Trust, and other
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Finding Elizabeth Gaskell at John Rylands Library
Early in October, a group of volunteers from the House was lucky enough to visit the magnificent John Rylands Library with John Hodgson - Joint Head of Special Collections and Manuscripts and Archives Manager - and to get very close to some
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A Darwinian Discovery
Continuing with my project of cataloguing all the books in William’s study I reach four undistinguished looking brown volumes by Lord Henry Cockburn. Inside both covers of a two volume life of Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850, Edinburgh judge and literary critic, co-founder of
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Miss Coutts is very, very kind
We have a new shed! It sits very neatly in the corner of the yard and will greatly ease the cramped storage for pots, compost and tools we have had up to now. Also making its appearance, and later than we would
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