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Blogs & News : Your Invitation to Celebrate Ten Years of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

“Oh, I can’t describe my home. It is home, and I can’t put its charm into words.” Margaret Hale, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855 Elizabeth Gaskell’s House has welcomed more than 50,000 visitors since its doors first opened in October 2014. Now in our 10th anniversary year, we are celebrating the decade since the beautiful restoration with a range of online events all about house and home… and you are cordially invited! Kick the season off with

10 year Anniversary : 1. A Year in the Life of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

Over the next year I am going to try to give a week-by-week update of what's happening at the House during its anniversary year via this blog. Inspired by Elizabeth Gaskell's letters, I hope to write about the trivial and the domestic, as well as about the big events and celebrations. I hope to share the good bits as well as the more challenging realities of working in a small, but wonderfully special literary House and museum. The