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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 Elizabeth Gaskell's House - Join us on Insta & FB to celebrate the life and literature of Elizabeth Gaskell.

North and South review in today’s The Times and The Sunday Times Richard Armitage Elizabeth Gaskell's House - Join us on Insta & FB The Gaskell Society Elizabeth Gaskell #RichardArmitage

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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

.Elizabeth Gaskell's House - Join us on Insta & FB Elizabeth Gaskell Have you seen this? Richard Armitage talking about #NorthandSouth 6 November 7pm #BBC2

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 BBC iPlayer. #bbcshakespeare

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-burdet…

This is the house in #Whitby in which Elizabeth Gaskell stayed when she visited in 1859. #writers #travel #Yorkshire Visit Whitby Elizabeth Gaskell

There used to be a blue plaque on the house.but sadly it disappeared some years ago Can't tell from the photo whether it has been replaced.

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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

Celia Richardson Interesting passage from the novel Mary Barton (1848), by Elizabeth Gaskell, describing the love of nature among working class Mancunians of that time. (Thanks to Project Gutenberg from where a free ebook can be downloaded.) Elizabeth Gaskell's House - Join us on Insta & FB Elizabeth Gaskell

It was in relation to this passage that Gaskell introduced Job Leigh , the grandfather of Mary's friend, Margaret. He was a typical example of the "working class botanists"

What are the most underrated novels of the 19th and 20th centuries? Ones that are not on most people's radars. Making a big list...

Johanna Thomas-Corr Mary Barton. Most of Gaskell, actually. Romantic, passionately political, sometimes astonishingly modern.

Johanna Thomas-Corr 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"

“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…

#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.