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Blogs & News : Life in Manchester – Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras

'How long is it since you were a beauty?' Life in Manchester - Libbie Marsh's Three Eras, 1847 Life in Manchester – Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras was one of Elizabeth Gaskell’s earliest works and was published under the pen-name ‘Cotton Mather Mills, Esq.’ This very short story looks at motherhood, loss and marriage through the reality of working-class life in Manchester – a precursor to later novels like Mary Barton and North and South. What's Libbie Marsh's First

Blogs & News : Your Next Chapter of Autumn Events from Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

Autumn is just around the corner. So, are you ready for a new chapter of online Autumn Events 2025? You can choose between literary workshops featuring favourite writers like Jane Austen (and, of course, Elizabeth Gaskell) or a packed programme of fascinating online talks. We’ve got North and South fashion, the Lady of the Lamp Florence Nightingale, Victorian Ghost Stories and much much more. You can browse the full listing of Autumn Events 2025 at this link here.

Events : Feisty Females – New Online Course for Autumn 2025

You can enjoy a special treat this autumn. Elizabeth Gaskell’s House is delighted to announce a new online course about feisty females with the ever-popular Dr Sherry Ashworth. So from September you can take a look at literature's feisty females including some of your favourite heroines from classic novels like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Literature is full of impressive female characters and we have picked four of the feistiest from your

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

Blogs & News : A Man’s World – New Online Course for Spring 2025

In our 10th anniversary year, Elizabeth Gaskell's House is delighted to announce a new online course with the ever-popular Dr Sherry Ashworth. This spring we take a look at literary men and masculinity. Join Sherry to ask what do Victorian novelists have to say about men as fathers, lovers, activists, wealth creators – and kings? In this new course, we will be looking at Elizabeth Gaskell’s John Barton in Mary Barton (father), John Thornton in North and South