Blogs & News

Events : New Online Reading Course – The Gothic

Take a walk on the wild side with our new reading course looking at horror, mystery and the darker side of the human condition. We’re taking on some giants of the gothic to explore literature’s supernatural forces, from the terrible monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the wild and windy moors of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Many of your favourite women writers wrote gothic novels so now is the time to dig a little deeper into the underbelly of nineteenth century

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.

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 : 2025 Events Season: Exploring the impact of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth

‘Nay, Ruth, you are not going to have secrets from me, are you?’ You are cordially invited to Elizabeth Gaskell’s House's 10-year anniversary season of Ruth events! These are dedicated to the most controversial of all Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels. Ruth is an infamous book. It was ‘banned, burned and denounced from the pulpit’ when it was published in 1853. Yet it is also a ground-breaking work and so is now recognised as the first mainstream novel to tell

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