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What’s On

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

February Half-Term Family Fun

15th February - 22nd February

Half-term family activities

Textile Art Celebrating Trailblazing Women

4th January - 31st October

Exhibition of textile work created by the Trailblazing Stitching group.

True Love or Vinegar Valentine?

21st January - 22nd February

Victorian Valentines cards and literary romance

Online Talk: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Short Stories – An Introduction

21 January

Online Talk: Short Stories

Online Reading Workshop – The Gothic – Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (Repeat)

Thursday 29 January

Online Reading Workshop - The Gothic - Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (Repeat)

Online Talk: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fairy Stories

4 February

Elizabeth Gaskell's Fairy Stories

Second-Hand Book Sale

Second Sunday of the month (Jan- Oct)

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

Online Event: Valentine’s – Romantic Moments

Tues 10 February

Online Event - Valentines Romantic Moment

Online Reading Workshop – The Gothic – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Wed 11 February, 7-9pm

Online Gothic - Frankenstein

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Online Book Group

Third Thursday of the month

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

Online Talk: Elizabeth Gaskell- An Introduction

Wed 25 February

Online Talk - Elizabeth Gaskell

Online Reading Workshop – The Gothic – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Repeat)

Thursday 26 February

Online Reading Workshop - The Gothic - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Repeat)

International Women’s Day Walking Tour

4th March

Walking tour and entry to the House.

Online Event – International Women’s Day: Women of Words

Wednesday 4 March

Online Event: International Women's Day - Women of Words

Online Reading Workshop – The Gothic – Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Wed 11 March, 7-9pm

Online Gothic - Wuthering Heights

Online Talk: I Blame the Mother

Wed 18 March

Online Talk: I Blame the Mother

Online Reading Workshop – The Gothic – The Nurses’ Story and The Poor Clare by Elizabeth Gaskell

Wed 8 April, 7-9pm

Online Gothic - The Old Nurse's Story and The Poor Clare

Online Talk: North and South across the Atlantic – Elizabeth Gaskell’s Influence in Nineteenth-Century America

Wed 15 April

Online Talk: North and South in America

Online Talk: The Invention of Charlotte Brontë – Elizabeth Gaskell and her Infamous Brontë Biography

Wednesday 22 April, 7-8pm

Online Talk: The Invention of Charlotte Brontë

Online Talk: Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell- A Friendship

Wed 29 April, 7-8pm

Online Talk : Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell Friendship

Online Talk: ‘I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free’ – Emily and Anne Brontë

Wednesday 6 May, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Emily and Ann Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell

Online Reading Workshop – The Gothic – Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Wed 13 May, 7-9pm

Online Gothic - Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Online Talk: South and North Rather than North and South: Ellen Wilkinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and the ‘Big Strike’ novel

Wed 20 May

Online Talk: South and North rather than North and South

Online Talk: Cranford – A TV Classic

Wednesday 3 June

Online event: Cranford TV Classic

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

Online Talk: Cranford For Beginners

Wed 24 June, 7-8pm

Online Talk - Cranford for Beginners

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic Fiction: An Introduction

Wednesday 16 September, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Fiction

The Cultural Welcome

7-11 October

Free events for students with The Cultural Welcome

Christmas at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

See our beautiful House decked out in Christmas splendour.

I'm afraid we must do some shopping

Elizabeth Gaskell 1863