Elizabeth Gaskell's Bicentenary Year
For events please refer to the Gaskell Society website
Events in the house
We do not yet have a firm date for the reopening of the house in the spring.
We hope to start with the AGM of the Trust and continue with open days and other events.
Events elsewhere
Sunday 7 March 1-4pm
International Woman’s Day,
Manchester Town Hall
Always a headline event, you can visit us in the Great Hall or nearby and catch up with our latest news, as well as seeing a great range of other women’s organisations. Entrance is free.
March 31-29 April 9.30-4.30, Monday to Friday
Portico Library Exhibition
on Elizabeth Gaskell and her circle. The exhibition will draw upon the Library’s unique collection of Gaskell first editions and books from the Library’s shelves might were borrowed by the family and influenced her work. Also objects never before on public show from the Trust’s Patron Rosemary Dabbs, great-grand daughter of Elizabeth Gaskell. Free.
Also during the exhibtion:
April 8
Talk and launch of Alan Shelston's new Gaskell Biography.
13 April
Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronte
an evening costumed reading by Intertheatre: a dramatisation of the lives of two famous literary friends. Please book in advance, times and prices from the Library, ring 0161 236 6785
Wednesday 21 April 11am
Tour of Goya and Valette Pictures
Manchester Art Gallery
With our preferred guide Nirvana. As numbers are limited please contact
Pat Barnard pat.barnard@live.co.uk, or 0161 439 2633 to reserve your place.
Cost £5.00.
Tuesday 25 May starting at 8.45am
Visit to St Deiniol’s Library
In the picturesque village of Hawarden, by coach (starting opposite Chorlton Street bus station). The impressive building was designed by John Douglas. The Library was originated by Gladstone. It has an outstanding collection of more than 250,000 items and specialises in Theology and Victorian Studies. It also provides residential accommodation. This tour is shared with the Portico
Library.
Cost £20 includes travel, coffee or tea and cake on arrival and tour of the library. You can order lunch individually in the library cafe.
Please book with Hilda Holmes on 0161 487 2593
