It’s Back! Join Our Reading Course Online
If your New Year's Resolution is to make a start on all those classic novels, then we have news for you! Our sell-out reading course on nineteenth-century fiction is now going online! Join tutor Sherry Ashworth in our perennially popular reading course,
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A Room of His Own
While re-reading Carolyn Lambert’s book The Meaning of Home in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction (2013), I noticed a sentence that had previously escaped my attention which began: ‘William had bookshelves built to his own design’ (p. 34). As you can imagine I was
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Just Richmal Crompton!
My grand plan was to feature Mrs Linnaeus Banks as the fourth Manchester woman writer in our Lockdown 2.0 series but I'm over-excited to find out that Richmal Crompton was born and brought up in Bury! I've moved Mrs Linnaeus Banks into
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An Exciting Online Adventure
If like Elizabeth herself you 'must do some shopping' then we invite you take a look at our new online shop which opens this week on the museumshop website. Those who have had the opportunity to visit the House in person will
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Showcasing Shelagh Delaney
Sheila Mary Delaney was born on 25 November 1938 and was brought up in Salford, the proud granddaughter of Irish emigrants, which is perhaps one of the reasons why she changed the spelling of her first name to Shelagh in her teens,
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