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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
12 Nov 2024
#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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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
7 Nov 2024
“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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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
10 Jul 2024
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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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
8 Jul 2024
Mary Barton. Most of Gaskell, actually. Romantic, passionately political, sometimes astonishingly modern.
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11 Jun 2024
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"
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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
5 Jun 2024
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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26 Apr 2024
That is good news!
26 Apr 2024
There is a plaque. You can just see it to the left of the front door.
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26 Apr 2024
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.
26 Apr 2024
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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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
26 Apr 2024
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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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
22 Nov 2023
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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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
31 Oct 2023
.@EGaskellsHouse @EGaskell Have you seen this? @RCArmitage talking about #NorthandSouth 6 November 7pm #BBC2
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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
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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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
'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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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
7 Oct 2023
North and South review in today’s @thetimes @RCArmitage @EGaskellsHouse @GaskellSociety @EGaskell #RichardArmitage
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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
#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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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
21 Sep 2023
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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Elizabeth Gaskell retweeted
5 Apr 2023
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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