• Three repeated pictures of scared woman reading by candle light
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Last entry on Thursday 12 November will be 1.30pm as we will be closing early.

What’s On

  • All
  • Exhibition
  • Family Friendly
  • Performance
  • Talks
  • Tour
  • Workshops

Christmas at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

See our beautiful House decked out in Christmas splendour.

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V George Eliot – The Moorland Cottage V The Mill on the Floss

Wednesday 18 November, 7-8pm

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V George Eliot

Online Event: A Victorian Christmas with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

Wed 2 December, 7-8pm

Online Event: A Victorian Christmas with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

Online Course: Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Wednesday 13 January 2027

Online Course: Molly and Cynthia in Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Wednesday 10 March 2027

Bricks & Paper: A Story in Light

12th March - 13th March

External art projection experience - two nights only!

Online Course: The Two Mrs Rochesters in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wednesday 12 May 2027

Online Course: Dorothea Brooke and Rosamond Vincy in Middlemarch by George Eliot

Wednesday 8 September 2027

Online Course: Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie in The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Wednesday 10 November 2027

And we've got a house. Yes! we really have

Elizabeth Gaskell, 1850