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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More stories from a second-hand book sale
The selection of second-hand books we have at Elizabeth Gaskell's House regularly turns up treasures - not news to those of you who are regular visitors to our monthly second-hand book sales, or who browse when you are visiting. Idly moving along
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Was Charles Dickens a Unitarian?
Looking at one or two Unitarian websites for an entirely different purpose, I came across a quiz of famous Unitarian faces. I was surprised to find there, not Elizabeth Gaskell's face, but that of Charles Dickens. Until now, I don't think I
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In Memory of Julia Gaskell – Some Questions Answered
After her sister’s sudden death in October 1908, only eight days after sending her love and sympathy to Charles Eliot Norton in Massachusetts, Meta writes: 'She was a ‘creature of delight’, so beautiful and sweet and outwardly, and within extraordinarily good and
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