Our blog post cover everything that happens at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House from the stories discovered about objects and furnishings, to family connections and past residents. You can read about the garden and the plants we grow as well as the volunteering experience we offer to our brilliant team. The majority of the posts are written by volunteers.
Wilkie Collins
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Wilkie Collins (1824 -1889), author and great friend of Charles Dickens, fell on 8 January 2024. In 1855, in a letter to Louis Hachette, a French publisher of novels translated from English, Elizabeth Gaskell writes;
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Wives and Daughters: An exciting events programme for you in 2024
'Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.' Wives and Daughters was Elizabeth Gaskell's last, and unfinished, novel. It has been called ‘the most underrated novel in English’. The story centres on young Molly’s response
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‘We are in another world, with the greatest novelists’ – Wives and Daughters
This season of events at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House examines Elizabeth’s last, and for many her greatest novel, Wives and Daughters, published in monthly instalments from August 1864 to January 1866. Sadly, Elizabeth’s death on November 17 1865 meant that the final chapter was left unfinished.
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Elizabeth, William and the gift of poetry at Christmas…
One of our most precious items in Elizabeth Gaskell's House is the Keats poetry book (pictured open, on the left in the photo above) given as a gift, fondly inscribed by William to Elizabeth on December 25th 1854. The book was sold
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Searching For Saffron: souvenirs of a joyous trip to Rome
I have visited Italy several times and of course a highlight is always wonderful food. Usual attempts to recreate memorable meals at home often don’t quite work, but last year, thanks to an Italian friend, I made a discovery that may help
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