Hopeless Romantic
As a wedding coordinator, you might expect me to be a hopeless romantic, and you’d be exactly right! I love all things wedding, I’m captivated by a good love story and I love nothing more than listening to how couples met and
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Digitised Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens letters now available to read online
Thanks to popular demand, and time afforded to staff during lockdown, the John Rylands Library (owned and operated by the University of Manchester) has just announced that they have created a new image viewer that makes their Elizabeth Gaskell collection of letters
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s House: the Final Chapter
Meta and Julia Gaskell purchased 84 Plymouth Grove, sixteen years after their father’s death [see my previous blog] and remained there until their own deaths Julia in 1908 and Meta in 1913. Marianne, Elizabeth’s eldest daughter was still alive at this point and
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Sir Squirrel Knutsford
As he curled round himself in his drey in the roof of a warm block of flats on Plymouth Grove, Squirrel Knutsford felt he lived a good life. Outside it was cold and snow still lay on the ground. But in his
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Explore the world of Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell
Launch of online tours of Elizabeth Gaskell's House Elizabeth Gaskell’s House is giving visitors the keys to the door, as it shares an invitation to a series of special online tours taking place in February and March. From wherever you are you
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