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.
Day in the Life of a Volunteer
I started volunteering at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House a year ago and I have loved getting to know the rich history of the Gaskell family and the House. I started volunteering because I'm interested in gender history and women’s writing, and I wanted
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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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Discovering connections: Gaskells and Martineaus…
When we were creating Elizabeth Gaskell's bedroom in 2020, we had a number of very generous donations from friends and supporters of the House. One of these was two lovely watercolours by an artist called Helen Thornycroft: one a portrait of her
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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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Discovering Agnes and Eliza Paterson
One of the somewhat frustrating things about reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s letters, is that we get tantalising glimpses of people whom the family knew well and socialised with, but about whom we know very little. These elusive players on the Gaskell stage include
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