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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.

The Women who said YES!

1st April - 28th June

Temporary exhibition about the women who stood for parliament in 1918.

National Open Garden Scheme

Saturday 13 June

Elizabeth Gaskell's Garden Open Day

Second-Hand Book Sale

Second Sunday of the month (Jan- Oct)

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

Online Talk: Step into the Garden – The Language of Flowers in Cranford and other novels

Wednesday 17 June, 7-8pm

Online Take: Language of Flowers

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Online Book Group

Third Thursday of the month

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

Shared Reading sessions

Sunday 21 and Wednesday 24 June

Shared reading taster session

Online Talk: Cranford For Beginners

Wed 24 June, 7-8pm

Online Talk - Cranford for Beginners

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’

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

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

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

New cooks always want their own peculiar little odds & ends for cookery

Elizabeth Gaskell 1863