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: Charlotte Brontë & Elizabeth Gaskell Tour

Visit Elizabeth Gaskell’s House for a brand-new guided tour exploring the friendship between Manchester’s Elizabeth Gaskell and Yorkshire’s Charlotte Brontë. As you walk through the family home where Charlotte sought refuge from the whirlwind of her fame you will learn about their intimate friendship, the controversies that resulted and have exclusive access to rare objects that bring the two women to life. Ticket price of £18 includes tea and cake after your tour.     Tickets strictly limited, book

: Charlotte Brontë & Elizabeth Gaskell Tour

Visit Elizabeth Gaskell’s House for a brand-new guided tour exploring the friendship between Manchester’s Elizabeth Gaskell and Yorkshire’s Charlotte Brontë. As you walk through the family home where Charlotte sought refuge from the whirlwind of her fame you will learn about their intimate friendship, the controversies that resulted and have exclusive access to rare objects that bring the two women to life. Ticket price of £18 includes tea and cake after your tour.     Tickets strictly limited, book

: Online Event: A Victorian Christmas with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

Get ready to step back in time for the ultimate festive treat! We’re thrilled to invite you to a cozy online evening with the wonderful Lucinda Dickens Hawksley. As the great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, Lucinda doesn’t just know Christmas —it’s in her DNA! Book Now Ever wondered why we send cards, pull crackers or decorate trees? It turns out we have the Victorians (and a certain Mr. Dickens) to thank for so much we love about the festive

: Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V George Eliot – The Moorland Cottage V The Mill on the Floss

In the mid-19th century, two titans of English literature - Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot - set out to explore the tension between personal yearning and family duty. But while their novels shared a common rural landscape, the women themselves couldn't have been more different. Book Now George Eliot was private and intellectual, while Elizabeth was outgoing, gossipy and deeply shocked by the scandal of her fellow writer’s personal life. Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Moorland Cottage introduced the quiet

: Online Talk: Victorian Gothic – Haunted Houses and Night-time Terrors

Cross the threshold into a world of flickering gaslight and cold stone. Step beyond the velvet curtains of the Victorian home to discover the era’s greatest Gothic writers, from the atmospheric dread of Wuthering Heights to the suffocating psychology of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. Book now Find out more about the psychological stories of terror written by Elizabeth Gaskell's contemporaries where crumbling buildings reflect unravelling psyches. We'll consider terrifying tales about ancestral curses, haunted railways, dead