What’s On

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  • Exhibition
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  • Talks
  • Tour
  • Workshops

Textile Art celebrating Trailblazing Women

22nd September - 30th March

Exhibition of textile work created by the Trailblazing Stitching group.

NEW Exhibition: The Story of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House from Dereliction to Delight

6th October - 6th July

Online Talk: Ruth – An Introduction

15th January

Online Talk: Introduction to Ruth

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Book Group Online

Third Thursday of the month

We read (and re-read) classic works of fiction. New members welcome.

Online Talk: The Real Ruth – Mapping Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth

29th January

Online Talk: Ruth Locations

Online Course: A Man’s World – Lovers – John Thornton and Mr Rochester

5th February

Online Course: A Man's World

Second-Hand Book Sale

Every second Sunday of the month

Second-hand book sale on every second Sunday of the month.

Online Talk: Valentine’s Day – Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell

12th February

Online Talk: Valentines - Austen, Bronte and Gaskell

Online Course: A Man’s World – Activists – Felix Holt from George Eliot’s Felix Holt, the Radical

12th March

Online Course: A Man's World - Activist

Online Talk: Motherhood – The Good, The Bad and The Tolerable

26th March

Online Talk: Motherhood

Online Tour: Restoring Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

2nd April

Online Tour: Restoring Elizabeth Gaskell's House

Online Course: A Man’s World – Wealth Creators – Jabez Clegg in Isabella Banks’ The Manchester Man

9th April

Online Course - A Man's World - Wealth Creators

Online Talk: Writing Home – Elizabeth Gaskell

23rd April

Online Talk: Writing Home - Elizabeth Gaskell

Online Talk: Literary Locations – Finding Elizabeth Gaskell

30th April

Online Talk: Literary Locations

Online Talk: The Fallen Woman – Sex and Sin in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth

7th May

Online Talk: The Fallen Woman

Online Course: A Man’s World – Kings – The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

14th May

Online Course - A Man's World - Kings

Online Talk: Laughter and Literature – Comedy in Elizabeth Gaskell

21st May

Online Talk: Comedy

Online Talk: Redemption through Divine Motherhood in Ruth – Religion in Victorian Literature

4th June

Online Talk: Ruth and Redemption

Online Talk: Sewing, Slavery and Social Change: Ruth and its Political Moment

25th June

Online Talk: Ruth - Sewing, Slavery and Social Change

Online Talk: Sex and Scandal – Writing the Erotic in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Novels

3rd September

Online Talk: Sex and Scandal

Online Talk: At Home with Elizabeth Gaskell

17th September

Online Talk: At Home with Elizabeth Gaskell

Online Talk: North and South – Fashion in the TV Classic and Novel

24th September

Online Talk: Fashion in North and South

Online Talk: Writing to Change Hearts and Minds – Ruth and Other Reforming Novels

1st October

Online Talk: Ruth and Reforming Novels

Online Talk: ‘A Flattering Malady’ – Disease and Dying in Victorian Fiction

15th October

Online Talk: Death and Dying in Victorian Literature

Online Talk: The Lady of the Lamp – Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Gaskell

19th November

Online Talk: Florence Nightingale

We've got a house...it certainly is a beauty...I must try and make the house give as much pleasure to others as I can.’

Elizabeth Gaskell, in a letter to her friend Eliza Fox in 1850.