Elizabeth Gaskell's Home Exhibit Explores Bronte Connections
Elizabeth Gaskell's Home Exhibit Explores Bronte Connections
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A new permanent exhibition has opened at the Elizabeth Gaskell House, exploring the author's role in Victorian society and his connection to Charlotte Bronte.< /p>
The Cranford author lived in the 19th century Manchester Villa from 1850 until his death in 1865.
The exhibit explores Gaskell's involvement with social and charitable organizations in the city.
It also shows his association with leading reformers, writers and artists of the time.
They held her in high regard, her friend Charlotte Bronte describing her as "kind, intelligent, lively and unaffected".
Gaskell wrote about poverty, class divide and inequality, in roms years such as North and South, and Women and Girls, and was an active citizen who wanted to see change.
Among the circle of friends she met , invited to her home and corresponded with Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Florence Nightingale and Charles Dickens.
A new permanent exhibition has opened at the Elizabeth Gaskell House, exploring the author's role in Victorian society and his connection to Charlotte Bronte.< /p>
The Cranford author lived in the 19th century Manchester Villa from 1850 until his death in 1865.
The exhibit explores Gaskell's involvement with social and charitable organizations in the city.
It also shows his association with leading reformers, writers and artists of the time.
They held her in high regard, her friend Charlotte Bronte describing her as "kind, intelligent, lively and unaffected".
Gaskell wrote about poverty, class divide and inequality, in roms years such as North and South, and Women and Girls, and was an active citizen who wanted to see change.
Among the circle of friends she met , invited to her home and corresponded with Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Florence Nightingale and Charles Dickens.
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