Elizabeth Gaskell

#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.

“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…

@JohannaTC 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"

@JohannaTC Mary Barton. Most of Gaskell, actually. Romantic, passionately political, sometimes astonishingly modern.

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"

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-opium…

That is good news!

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.

@literarybritain @VisitWhitby Elizabeth was researching the whaling industry at Whitby, which she used she used as background for "Sylvia's Lovers", her only historical novel. A great read!

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

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…

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

.@EGaskellsHouse @EGaskell Have you seen this? @RCArmitage talking about #NorthandSouth 6 November 7pm #BBC2

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/get-involved/w…

'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

North and South review in today’s @thetimes @RCArmitage @EGaskellsHouse @GaskellSociety @EGaskell #RichardArmitage

#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.

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/deliverin…