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: Mothering Sunday at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

Diane Duffy will give a short talk in the Dining Room at 1pm about how Elizabeth constructed a space to write amidst her busy life as a wife and mother. All mums will get a free cup* of the Elizabeth Gaskell's House Tea or filter coffee in the tea room. Included in admission. There will also be scones (with jam and butter) for sale in the tearoom for £2.50. *One cup per mum.

: Bonnets at Dawn: Charlotte & Elizabeth

We are delighted to welcome the Literary Thunderdome that is Bonnets at Dawn to Elizabeth Gaskell's House for a panel discussion about the friendship between Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell. Bonnets at Dawn team, Lauren Burke and Hannah Chapman, will be joined by Amy Rowbottom from the Brontë Parsonage and will welcome questions and contributions from the audience. Lauren Burke and Hannah Chapman (aka Bonnets at Dawn) go head to head to compare and contrast the lives and work of

: Reading the Nineteenth Century – North and South

**** The January session has now sold out - spaces still available on all other dates ********* Nineteenth-century novelists are not only masterful storytellers but also valuable witnesses of their times. In this monthly course we will be reading Victorian novels in the light of what they tell us about the age in which they were written.  What were the issues that concerned our forebears? Predictably drugs, alcohol, love, the position of women, religion, social justice – sounds

: FRIENDS EVENT: A Christmas Carol

***** Sorry this event has sold out ****** The Friends of Elizabeth Gaskell's House presents a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Veronica and Gordon Walker will perform their ever-popular dramatised reading of the famous Christmas ghost story followed by seasonal refreshments. Doors open at 2pm, event starts at 2.30pm Cost £12 50 - To book Phone Margo Singer  0161 860  0922  or email your booking to Margo Singer  Send cheques payable to MHBT and send to Mrs Margo Singer, 14 Silverdale Road, Chorlton,

: Celebrating Charlotte – A Talk from the Brontë Society

****** Sorry, this event has now sold out *********** Elizabeth Gaskell's House is delighted welcome to Lauren Livesey from the Brontë Society together with Libby Tempest Chair of the Gaskell Society to discuss the friendship between Elizabeth and Charlotte, as well as the book 'Celebrating Charlotte Brontë.' Published to mark the bicentenary of Charlotte's birth and written by Christine Alexander and Sara L Pearson, Celebrating Charlotte Brontë: Transforming Life into Literature in 'Jane Eyre', is an exploration of how Charlotte took