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Pre-booking online is essential when visiting the House.
Please note last entry to the House on Thursday 4 June will be 2.30pm.

What’s On

  • All
  • 10-year Anniversary
  • Exhibition
  • Family Friendly
  • Performance
  • Talks
  • Tour
  • Workshops

Textile Art Celebrating Trailblazing Women

4th January - 31st October

Exhibition of textile work created by the Trailblazing Stitching group.

Second-Hand Book Sale

Second Sunday of the month (Jan- Oct)

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

Online Event: Harriet Martineau – ‘Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare’

Wednesday 15 July, 7-8.15pm

Online Event: Harriet Martineau – ‘Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare’

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Online Book Group

Third Thursday of the month

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

Puffins, Penguins and Ladybirds: Summer Family Fun

22nd July - 30th August

Summer Family Activities

Charlotte Brontë & Elizabeth Gaskell Tour

4th September

New tour exploring the friendship between Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë

Online Talk – Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic Fiction: An Introduction

Wednesday 16 September, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Fiction

Online Talk: Mothers of the Gothic – Writing the Supernatural

Wednesday 30 September, 7-8pm

Online Talk - Mothers of the Gothic

Charlotte Brontë & Elizabeth Gaskell Tour

2nd October

New tour exploring the friendship between Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë

Online Talk: Mary Shelley Beyond Frankenstein

Wednesday 7 October, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Mary Shelley Beyond Frankenstein

The Cultural Welcome

7-11 October

Free events for students with The Cultural Welcome

Online Talk: The Shadows of Salem – Myth V Reality in Lois the Witch and Other Tales

Wednesday 14 October, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Shadows of Salem- Lois the Witch

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V Anne Brontë – Monsters and Madmen

Wednesday 21 October, 7-8pm

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V Anne Bronte - Monsters and Madmen

Online Talk: Victorian Gothic – Haunted Houses and Night-time Terrors

Wednesday 28 October, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Victorian Gothic Fiction

Charlotte Brontë & Elizabeth Gaskell Twilight Tour

29th October

After hours tour on Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë

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

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.