Skipton, Shakespeare and a sprinkling of Bronte…
In 1623, seven years after Shakespeare died, John Heminge and Henry Condell, his friends and colleagues from The King’s Men theatre company, compiled and arranged for publication thirty six of his plays in what has come to be known as the First
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A New Tree for our Garden
In 2021 the gardening volunteers at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House noticed that a tree, in a prominent position near the front of the house, was starting to suffer with Ash Die-Back. Reluctantly we took the hard decision to remove this mature tree, while
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A Book for the Study Shelves
‘I promised to send you Wordsworth’s ‘Prelude’, and accordingly, dispatch it by this post.’ Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 27 August 1850 Charlotte Bronte sent her present of The Prelude to Elizabeth Gaskell after their first meeting, when they had spent three
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A Visit to the Parsonage
On 15 July 2022 I visited the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth. The visit had been planned back in June after a visit from Anne Spiers, a volunteer at the Parsonage, to Elizabeth Gaskell's House. I was particularly excited to be given
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Manchester Grammar School Visit
We were delighted to welcome pupils from The Manchester Grammar School to Elizabeth Gaskell's House for a private tour and discussion last week. We asked the boys who visited us to comment on their visit and this is what they fed back.
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