Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester explored in new exhibition
A show at the 19th Century novelist's former home looks at how the burgeoning city inspired her.
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A show at the 19th Century novelist's former home looks at how the burgeoning city inspired her.
Elizabeth Gaskell wrote most of her most famous books – including Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters, as well as a biography of…
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was born in London in 1810. She was raised by an aunt in Cheshire following the death of her mother a year later. She married...
Historians have disputed the origins of the name Knutsford, but there is an ancient and popular explanation.
BBC News By Rumeana Jahangir image copyrightBBC/Netflix image captionBridgerton (right) has been seen by 82 million viewers worldwide, ten times the audience the BBC's Cranford garnered in 2007 It is 170 years since Elizabeth Gaskell first published her most popular work Cranford but thanks to more recent period dramas, the author's novels are seeing a surge of interest from new, young fans. "I call it the Bridgerton effect," says Sally Jastrzebski-Lloyd, the manager of the museum at the author's former Manchester home, which is currently hosting an exhibition on her novel. Based on Julia Qui...