Isabella Beeton: managing Household Commotion!
Isabella Beeton's A Book of Household Management was published in 1861 and we have a copy of it in the dining room underneath the portrait of Mrs Dimmock, William Gaskell's mother. The recipes in the book draw on the cookery column Isabella
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Knowing John Ruskin
This is Charles Eliot Norton writing to his mother, Mrs Andrews Norton, on July 2 1857 'One day as we were travelling in Italy, Mrs Gaskell and her daughters and I were talking about the books we would choose if we were
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Signed copy of Cranford Returns to Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
A signed copy of Cranford once gifted by Elizabeth Gaskell to a friend has been returned to her Manchester home after over 110 years. Purchased by the Gaskell Society, this signed first edition is now on display in the author’s House, alongside
Read more »Creating Successful Interiors: Interpretation, Audiences and Authenticity
A one-day, interdisciplinary conference exploring how historic house museums present and interpret interior spaces for contemporary museum visitors, and what they might learn from other industries. Presented by Jane Austen’s House Museum in partnership with The Charleston Trust Monday 4 March, 2019
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10 things you might not know about Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
1. Elizabeth lived at the house from 1850-1865 with her husband, William, and four daughters. William and their two unmarried daughters, Meta and Julia, continued to live in the house after Elizabeth’s death. When Meta died in 1913 the house and its
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