The right words in the right order…
The background: the House has been successful in securing funding from the Arts Council for a collaborative programme of arts activities which includes a series of creative writing workshops. Here, Ben Cassidy, who is attending the programme, describes his experience of the second session.
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What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon..
What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than sitting with an interesting group of people discussing one of Mrs Gaskell's short stories? Especially one that contains a murder! First serialised in Charles Dickens's weekly literary periodical ‘All the Year Round’, it
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Sweet Nancy is its pretty Lancashire name
A brave Sweet Nancy was in flower in the front bed this cold and wet Wednesday morning. A white, double, scented narcissus it took some finding in the bulb catalogues, because it is a name that has been given to a number
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A Tradition of Poetry
Read on for poems from the writers from the creative writing programme currently running at the House. For more of their work and to read about the background to these workshops, click here. Elizabeth Gaskell herself wrote poetry - one of her
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More than a flash in the pan – stories from Household Commotion
From the writers at the creative writing workshops currently running at the House. Inspired by the Household Commotion exhibition on servants who worked for the Gaskell family. Read and enjoy! VICTORIAN GOTHIC For the last time, in the house where I've been
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