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#otd 1865 Elizabeth Gaskell, great friend and biographer of Charlotte Bronte, died. She fell dead in mid sentence. Here is Elizabeth's grave in Knutsford and the nearby Gaskell Tower which has the titles of her novels across it.
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“All shall be well. All shall be well. And all manner of things shall be well.” Keep going. Every step through every day is worthwhile. Julian and her cat know…
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Well, it's on people's radar, obviously, but The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is one of the best books of the century. It's always losing out to Jane Eyre (also great). When I teach my Brontes course, students read Tenant & they're like, "Why did no one ever tell us about this book"
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Mary Barton. Most of Gaskell, actually. Romantic, passionately political, sometimes astonishingly modern.
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Calling history #teachers and anyone interested in our exhibition Infamous, we have now added new Key Stage 3 Resources as well as a PDF version of the the catalogue online.
These connect Manchester’s social #history & the Industrial Revolution with the Opium War 1839-1842 in China through images from our archive and discussion opium use in Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton.
Check it out here: theportico.org.uk/infamous-o…
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This is the house in #Whitby in which Elizabeth Gaskell stayed when she visited in 1859.
#writers #travel #Yorkshire
@VisitWhitby @EGaskell
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Angela Burdett Coutts had dinner with Dickens here in 1847, partly because she wanted to meet Hans Christian Andersen. But which town is it? kent-maps.online/19c/19c-bur…
ALT By permission of the Dickens Museum, Broadstairs.
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Just how did a glover’s son from the Midlands become the greatest writer who ever lived? 🎭
Watch Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius now on @BBCiPlayer. #bbcshakespeare
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.@EGaskellsHouse @EGaskell Have you seen this? @RCArmitage talking about #NorthandSouth 6 November 7pm #BBC2
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We are recruiting for a Wedding and Hires Manager to join our lovely team of staff and volunteers.
Could this be you?
Full time. £26,250pa. Closing date 6 Nov. Please RT.
elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/…
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'When she came downstairs she went into the old familiar garden and gathered a nosegay of the last lingering autumn flowers—a few roses and the like.' Ruth, 1853 #Garden #Manchester #Roses #Autumn
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North and South review in today’s @thetimes @RCArmitage @EGaskellsHouse @GaskellSociety @EGaskell #RichardArmitage
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#DidYouKnow that author Elizabeth Gaskell was born #OnThisDay in 1810? 📕
She is one of the UK's most important Victorian writers, with her work studied across the world. We granted £2m to help restore @EGaskellsHouse to celebrate the life and literature of Elizabeth Gaskell.
ALT Book shelves filled with books in the Elizabeth Gaskell House museum.
ALT Decorated carpet in the Elizabeth Gaskell House.
ALT Framed pictures of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë
ALT Elizabeth Gaskell's living room with a small table and newspaper on top.
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It hurts my heart so bad to see children asking for crisps & blankets on their Christmas giving tree tags, if you can donate anything at all this year you can go & pick a tag from your local Dunelm.
You can find out more here: dunelm.com/info/delivering-j…
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A visually stunning evening at the launch of #TheRossettis at @Tate. Congratulations to @caroljjacobi & co! 👏
It’s been an honour to see this show come life & contribute to its exciting exhibition catalogue!
#preraphaelites
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'It is right to hope for the best about everybody, and not to expect the
worst. This sounds like a truism, but it has comforted me before now, and some day you'll find it useful.' Wives and Daughters, 1865
ALT Victorian villa with greenery
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Lovely evening with @LaDanteMCR at Cross Street Chapel, spiritual home of Elizabeth Gaskell, talking all things Pre-Raphaelite, Italy and Industrial North. Thanks for the invite and traditional warm welcome! @EGaskell @NW_L19 @PreRaphSoc
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'The roadside cottage gardens were gay with hollyhocks and Michaelmas daisies and marigolds, and the bright panes of the windows glittered through a veil of China roses.’ Sylvia's Lovers.
Volunteer @janemathies shares her love of Hollyhocks on the blog elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/…
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'Now in some shut-in flower-garden, where the song of the birds, and the drip of the central fountain, were the only sounds, and the tree-tops made an enclosing circle in the blue June sky' Wives and Daughters, 1866. #garden #Manchester
Thanks to Chris T for the photography
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Thank you to speakers, panellists, chairs and guests who joined us for the Elizabeth Gaskell Conference. It was a lovely day discussing a wide variety of Gaskell-related topics. Thanks to @BAVS_UK for the support.