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: Remembrance Sunday Poetry Reading

Join us in the Dining Room at 12.30pm for a short poetry reading to mark the centenary of the Armistice and to remember and honour those who have sacrificed themselves to secure and protect our freedom. Thank you to Andrea Ellis for doing the poetry reading. Included in admission. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them. Laurence Binyon - 1914

: Easter at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

Join us for Servant School, Easter crafts and family activities in the beautifully restored home of Manchester’s most famous Victorian author. "There was Easter proper, which always required new clothing of some kind, for fear of certain consequences from little birds, who were supposed to resent the impiety of those who do not wear some new article of dress on Easter-day…So piety demanded a new bonnet, or a new gown" Elizabeth Gaskell, from Wives and Daughters Sunday 7

: Half-term Family Crafts

Join us for family crafts on Wednesday during half-term, from 1-3pm. We'll be making quill pens and using home-made ink to write our own Victorian-style letters, just like the letter in our servants exhibition, written to Elizabeth Gaskell's stable boy, Will Preston, and found tucked away in the eaves of the House during renovations. Come along, make a quill, and be inspired to write a letter of your own!      £1 per child with adult paying house

: Reading The Nineteenth Century – James Hogg

Join us for a reading course which looks into the dark side of Victorian fiction. Sherry Ashworth, Visiting Teaching fellow at Manchester Writing School will lead you on a journey into the dark heart of nineteenth century writing in this five-part evening course at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, and the third session will focus on James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. We are all prone to dark imaginings – and the Victorians were no different. Throughout the

: Reading the Nineteenth Century: The Water Babies

Join us for a reading course which looks into the dark side of Victorian fiction. Sherry Ashworth, Visiting Teaching fellow at Manchester Writing School, will lead you on a journey into the dark heart of nineteenth-century writing in this five-part evening course at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, and the second session will focus on Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies. We are all prone to dark imaginings – and the Victorians were no different. Throughout the nineteenth-century, there is a persistent interest