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.
Sir Joseph Paxton
Sir Joseph Paxton has returned to the garden. To be accurate it is the rose named after him that has returned. Here he is (with his small green admirers!) The rose was planted in the garden because Elizabeth Gaskell met Sir Joseph
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Finding Breathing Space at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
As part of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Heritage Lottery funded project celebrating the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth St Luke’s Art Project have been invited to run some workshops in the house, garden and Swinton Grove Park (land which used to belong to the house
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What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon..
What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than sitting with an interesting group of people discussing one of Mrs Gaskell's short stories? Especially one that contains a murder! First serialised in Charles Dickens's weekly literary periodical ‘All the Year Round’, it
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Sweet Nancy is its pretty Lancashire name
A brave Sweet Nancy was in flower in the front bed this cold and wet Wednesday morning. A white, double, scented narcissus it took some finding in the bulb catalogues, because it is a name that has been given to a number
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A Tradition of Poetry
Read on for poems from the writers from the creative writing programme currently running at the House. For more of their work and to read about the background to these workshops, click here. Elizabeth Gaskell herself wrote poetry - one of her
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