Blogs & News

: Time Travellers and the Crystal Dome – Stories from the Portico

The Portico Library and Seven Arches Publishing are launching their second edition of the Time Travellers and the Crystal Dome - Stories from the Portico at Elizabeth Gaskell's House on Sunday 30 September 2018 at 1.30 – 4.00 pm. Readings by Alison Padley-Woods (short-listed author for The Times Chicken House prize) and by children whose winning writing is published in the 2018 edition of ‘ Time Travellers and the Crystal Dome - Stories from the Portico’. There will

: Bonnets at Dawn – Pub Quiz

The literary Thunderdome that is Bonnets at Dawn is back, and this time they are challenging Team Gaskell to a pub quiz. So, if you know your Margaret from your Molly, and your Mr Thornton from Mr Hamley, then this is the quiz to come to. Lauren Burke and Hannah Chapman (aka Bonnets at Dawn) go head to head to compare and contrast the lives and work of Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell and other Nineteenth-century women

: Christmas Carols in the Drawing Room

Join our House pianist for seasonal carols around the piano in the Drawing Room at 11am and 2pm. Included in Admission. Mince pies and mulled wine will be on sale in the Tea Room and pick up some last-minute stocking fillers in the shop.

: Christmas Carols in the Drawing Room

Join our House pianist for seasonal carols around the piano in the Drawing Room at 11am and 2pm. Included in Admission. Mince pies and mulled wine will be on sale in the Tea Room and pick up some last-minute stocking fillers in the shop.

: Nell Stevens: Mrs Gaskell & Me

In Mrs Gaskell & Me, author and scholar Nell Stevens (Bleaker House) blends memoir and fiction to explore her life alongside that of Manchester’s own Elizabeth Gaskell. In 1857, following the controversial publication of The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell flees to Rome, where she meets Charles Norton, a lifelong friend and the love of her life. In 2013, Nell falls in love with Max, a man who lives in Paris and then Boston. As they attempt to