access to the chapel and grounds.
and her cousins. Cranford, partly
is being installed in the Victorian Schoolroom to enable easiermost recent being in Japanese.
uncle, Dr Peter Holland, her aunts
number of improvements taking place at the chapel and a liftGaskell's works are available in many languages, with the
Holland family relations: her
her ancestors and family rest in the graveyard. There are a
journals, newsletters and a web site.
sister. She was surrounded by
300 year old Brook Street Chapel, where Elizabeth Gaskell,
Society with its 600 members links them together with
Hannah Lumb, her mother’s
and exhibitions and the
With many Gaskell enthusiasts around the world, The Gaskell
Knutsfordto be cared for by Aunt
host a number of events
year old and she was brought tobooks about her subsequently being published.
visitors; Tatton Parkwill
her mother died when she was aan edition of her letters was published in 1966, with many
organise guided walks for
‘dear, adopted native town’, foranniversary and
exhibition and will also
Knutsfordsoon became herher 150th birth
Centrewill have a Gaskell
29 September, 1810, butcelebrations for
Knutsford Heritage
Cleghorn Stevenson in Chelsea onthere were local
performances.
The author was born Elizabethname alive. In 1960
long programme of exhibitions, events, festivals and
helped to keep her her name alive.
Bronte sisters.
will welcome thousands of Gaskell enthusiasts for a year
Cranfordhas
this way, including the three
helped to keep Throughout this important year Cheshireand Manchester
women have been honoured inHousehold Words.
did most of her writing.
accolade as only eight othermagazine
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and also Manchesterwhere she spent her married life and
Gaskell’smemory. This is a greatinstalments in his
the Cheshire market town of Knutsford, the real Cranford;
commemorating Elizabethworks in
this be more celebrated than in the Northwest of England in
glass at Poets CornerCranfordand later
2010 marks the bicentenary of her birth and nowhere will
members will dedicate a pane ofpublishing
Abbey where The Gaskell Societyencouraged her by North and Southand most recently Cranford.
25th September at Westminsterher writing and
adaptations of her works: Wives and Daughters,
events will include a ceremony onenthusiastic about
become familiar to many through BBC
The year-long programme ofDickens was
Charlotte Bronteand has
Rylands Libraryin Manchester. workers whom she met daily in Manchester.
biography of her friend
the Portico Libraryand Johnthem relevant to life today. She was sympathetic to the
also wrote the remarkable
There will also be exhibitions athistory, they also express man’s common humanity, making
novels and short stories, she
While this book and North and Southare valuable as social
and Harriet Beecher Stowe!
an accomplished writer of
and of the frustration of working men denied the vote.
Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens
her marriage; it tells of disease, poverty and even starvation,
(1810-1865)...
visitors to the house included
industrial system in Manchester, where she moved after
welcome visitors again. Previous
Her first novel, Mary Barton, highlighted the horrors of the
house will soon be ready to
Elizabeth Gaskell
now being undertaken and the‘elegant economy'.
Gaskells’ Manchester home, issocial etiquette of the ladies who lived in Knutsfordin
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