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.
Tracking down Mr Aide
On March 28 1862. Elizabeth Gaskell writes a letter to George Smith, her publisher: 'It seems to me that you must have been thinking me very ungrateful inasmuch as all this time I have never thanked you for Mr Aide's book. But
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And so, to bed…
The excitement is building within the bedroom team at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House as we are now well on the way to finishing the restoration of Elizabeth’s Bedroom. If you have visited Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, you will have seen our beautiful carpets in
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The Manchester Woman – Mrs G Linnaeus Banks
Before I was sidetracked by Richmal Crompton, I had wanted to feature the writer of The Manchester Man in our occasional series about other women writers of Manchester. So to celebrate the 200th anniversary of her birth on 25 March 1821, let's
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Literary detectives and Cranford
Over the last few months, a team of our lovely volunteers has been cataloguing all the books we have in the House, and particularly those in William's study. Now this rather huge job is done, they have been identifying the gaps in
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Work Experience
Hello, I’m George Parker-Conway, I’m an artist based in Manchester. I have been doing some work experience with Elizabeth Gaskell’s House online via Zoom facilitated by Venture Arts. I have found having sessions with Sally at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House for the past
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