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.
Charlotte Brontë’s bedroom
Elizabeth Gaskell met Charlotte Brontë on 20 August 1850 at Briery Close in the Lake District, introduced by Sir James Kay-Shuttlewoth and his wife. They were immediately drawn to each other. In a letter to Ellen Nussey, written on 26 August ,
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Uncle Peter Holland
I’ve recently been completing pen portraits of some of the members of the Holland family – Elizabeth’s uncles and cousins in Knutsford. Included among them was Peter Holland a doctor in Knutsford, brother of Hannah Lumb and uncle to Elizabeth. Its said
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Mr Lear and Mrs Gaskell
I've recently read a biography of Edward Lear who we now mostly remember for his nonsense verse and limericks - The Owl and The Pussycat anyone? One of my reasons for reading 'Mr Lear. A Life of Art and Nonsense' is that
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Volunteers needed to help with second-hand book sales
Our legendary second-hand book sales (held every second Sunday) is the city's biggest (and perhaps best) second-hand book sale, with two rooms crammed with second-hand books of all genres. We are looking for at least two new volunteers to help support the
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Cairo Street Chapel Celebrating Martin Luther King Day
Sunday 19 January at 10.30am The middle years of the 19th Century must have been a great time to be a member of Cairo Street Unitarian Chapel for not only were plans being developed to change the Georgian Chapel of 1745 into
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