About two rather different Elizabeths…
Wightwick Manor, built by Theodore Mander , is a beautiful Aesthetic Style house in the Midlands which houses a remarkable collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Most of the collection was put together by Geoffery Mander, who with his second wife Rosalie Glynn
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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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