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: Stitching our own Stories

In this textile oral history workshop we will be focusing on sharing our connections, memories and involvement with Elizabeth Gaskell’s House. We will start the workshop with a small free writing workshop to get our ideas and memories flowing. Then we will move to the textiles portion of the workshop where you will each make your own quilt panel telling your personal story with the Elizabeth Gaskell's House. Each quilt square is a book panel, a space to

: Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Book Group Online

The friendly Book Group at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House focuses mainly on reading classic works of fiction from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Our intention is to provide a varied and stimulating set of novels, all of which are well worth reading – or re-reading – and which cater for a range of diverse tastes. We have a number of regular members who have taken part in our discussions over several years but we also warmly welcome newcomers.

: M13 Residents visit for Free

To coincide with the Swinton Grove Park Community Christmas light switch on, local residents with a M13 postcode can gain free entry to Elizabeth Gaskell's House on Wednesday 4 December. No need to book - just come to the house with proof of your address between 11am-3pm and experience the House dressed for Christmas. Pick up Christmas gifts from our shop and try festive treats in our Tea Room. The Swinton Grove Community Christmas Light Switch will be

: Reading The Nineteenth-Century Online: Esther Waters

Join Sherry Ashworth for the last in our perennially popular reading course - now online - to explore depictions of motherhood in the nineteenth-century novel. In this session we'll be exploring George Moore's Esther Waters. Grab your book and hunker down for some absorbing spring-time reading, and then join the session for a fun and informative closer look at the text and the context of the novel. The course is suitable for the general reader who wants to

: Reading The Nineteenth-Century Online: Hester

Join Sherry Ashworth for the latest in our perennially popular reading course - now online - to explore depictions of motherhood in the nineteenth-century novel. In this session we'll be exploring Margaret Oliphant's Hester. Grab your book and hunker down for some spring-time reading, and then join the session for a fun and informative closer look at the text and the context the novel. Readers will be encouraged to discuss the books during the Zoom sessions, under Sherry's