Elizabeth Gaskell's House a tour for Victober!
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As promised I decided to take a look at Elizabeth Gaskell's House which is totally amazing I hope those of you based in the UK are encouraged to go and anyone travelling over into Manchester should definitely Check it out! I did this because I have been reading a few books by Elizabeth Gaskell as part of Victober for more information about that check this video out!
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Family home of William and Elizabeth Gaskell
Discovering your family tree can reveal the most amazing long forgotten family history. I recently found out I have a family connection with the Rev William Gaskell.
He was an amazing man who married Elizabeth Gaskell the authoress !!.
This video is a tour of what was their family home - 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester - recently renovated with great attention to detail. Carpets, wallpaper patterns duplicating fragments found in the house and original artefacts owned by William and Elizabeth Gaskell.
The Gaskells were friends of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte (Elizabeth wrote her biography), William Wordsworth, Florence Nightingale, Charles Halle (who taught their children to play the piano at Plymouth Grove), John Ruskin, Rupert Potter (father of Beatrix Potter to whom William was Godfather) and many other social reformers, politicians, literary and influential people of the day. Elizabeth completed a number of her literary works at Plymouth Grove
Researching William Gaskell reveals an extraordinary philanthropic man with tremendous intellectual ability, stamina, vision and social responsibility. His immense contribution to the social and educational life of Manchester is his legacy.
I will be a regular visitor to Plymouth Grove.
Neil Gaskell.
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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2) | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Book | 3/9
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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2) | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Culture & Heritage, Published 1800 -1900 | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 3/9
Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video.
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuous year of political change, 1848 - only a few months after the Communist Manifesto co-authored by her fellow Manchester-resident, Friedrich Engels. Engels's experience as agent in his father's cotton-spinning factory motivated him to write The Condition of the Working Class in England, a classic account of the sufferings of the poor under the factory-system.
Elizabeth Gaskell's own personal contact with the plight of the poor cotton workers of Lancashire also compelled her to a compassionate examination of their lives; but as a middle-class woman, married to a Unitarian minister, her approach to her subject took on a more emotionally complex significance; influenced by religious faith but also by more personal considerations.
In the brief preface to the novel, Mrs Gaskell hints at her initial impulse. The loss of a beloved child in infancy led her to seek a therapeutic outlet, but one which left her uncertain of her capacity to contextualize her public, writerly response to the tragedies occurring in the surrounding society of Manchester's poorest classes: I know nothing of Political Economy, or the theories of trade... She was, however, determined to portray, in novelistic form, the intimate connection between the private experience of her characters and the social forces of her time. The success of the novel led her to proclaim her authorship and move on to further works of fiction, which have secured her in our times a mounting reputation as one of the leading novelists of the mid-Victorian period.
Certainly the novel features numerous death-scenes, all conveyed with a depth of sympathy that contrasts with the queasy iambics with which Dickens orchestrated the notorious demise of Little Nell. Mrs Gaskell was not, like Dickens, a London-based novelist observing the sufferings of the provincial poor with a journalistic detachment - as evidenced in his own admirable, Lancashire-based novel Hard Times. Gaskell lived among the people whose attenuated lives she chronicled - and however hesitantly, as a début novelist, she rendered their experience in literary terms, her writing presents us with a true insight into the sufferings of individuals at a point in history when the mass of human beings fell casualty to the forms of economic progress following upon the Industrial Revolution. Most impressively she called into question the political and social cost of creating a resentful proletariat despairing of survival in (to quote Karl Marx) a heartless world.
Our reader Tony Foster is a resident of Manchester and a near-neighbour of Mrs Gaskell (allowing for their separation in time). His superb narration renders the native speech of her characters with an authenticity which ideally conveys the spirit of this book. A truly moving experience awaits everyone who gives ear to this 'Tale of Manchester Life'. (Summary by Martin Geeson)
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Elizabeth Gaskell: A Cranford Walk Around Knutsford, Past and Present
Elizabeth Gaskell:
A Cranford Walk Around Knutsford,
Past and Present
This delightful old Cheshire town is on the old London-Liverpool Toll Road (A50). Only two miles from junction 19 (Tabley) of the M6 Motorway it is thus easily accessible by road. Local bus services are operated by Cheshire Bus and there is a frequent railway service on the Manchester and Cheshire line. The International Airport at Manchester is only ten miles away. (Historic Knutsford)
This is a Knutsford page with a map and more than 70 old and new prints added to the text of A Cranford Walk Around Knutsford which has been revised by the late Hon. Sec. of The Gaskell Society, Mrs. Joan Leach (a walking dictionary / cycling cyclopedia of Knutsford and Gaskell).
Places to see in ( Manchester - UK ) The John Rylands Library
Places to see in ( Manchester - UK ) The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands. The John Rylands Library and the library of the University of Manchester merged in July 1972 into the John Rylands University Library of Manchester; today it is part of The University of Manchester Library.
Special collections built up by both libraries were progressively concentrated in the Deansgate building. The special collections, believed to be among the largest in the United Kingdom, include medieval illuminated manuscripts and examples of early European printing, including a Gutenberg Bible, the second largest collection of printing by William Caxton, and the most extensive collection of the editions of the Aldine Press of Venice. The Rylands Library Papyrus P52 has a claim to be the earliest extant New Testament text. The library holds personal papers and letters of notable figures, among them Elizabeth Gaskell and John Dalton.
The architectural style is primarily neo-Gothic with elements of Arts and Crafts Movement in the ornate and imposing gatehouse facing Deansgate which dominates the surrounding streetscape. The library, granted Grade I listed status in 1994, is maintained by the University of Manchester and open for The John Rylands Library readers and visitors.
The site chosen by Mrs Rylands was in a central and fashionable part of the city, but was awkward in shape and orientation and surrounded by tall warehouses, derelict cottages and narrow streets. Librarians at John Rylands before its merger include Edward Gordon Duff in 1899 and 1900 and Henry Guppy between 1899 and 1948 (joint Librarian with Duff until 1900).
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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2) | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Book | 5/9
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2) | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Culture & Heritage, Published 1800 -1900 | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 5/9
Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video.
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuous year of political change, 1848 - only a few months after the Communist Manifesto co-authored by her fellow Manchester-resident, Friedrich Engels. Engels's experience as agent in his father's cotton-spinning factory motivated him to write The Condition of the Working Class in England, a classic account of the sufferings of the poor under the factory-system.
Elizabeth Gaskell's own personal contact with the plight of the poor cotton workers of Lancashire also compelled her to a compassionate examination of their lives; but as a middle-class woman, married to a Unitarian minister, her approach to her subject took on a more emotionally complex significance; influenced by religious faith but also by more personal considerations.
In the brief preface to the novel, Mrs Gaskell hints at her initial impulse. The loss of a beloved child in infancy led her to seek a therapeutic outlet, but one which left her uncertain of her capacity to contextualize her public, writerly response to the tragedies occurring in the surrounding society of Manchester's poorest classes: I know nothing of Political Economy, or the theories of trade... She was, however, determined to portray, in novelistic form, the intimate connection between the private experience of her characters and the social forces of her time. The success of the novel led her to proclaim her authorship and move on to further works of fiction, which have secured her in our times a mounting reputation as one of the leading novelists of the mid-Victorian period.
Certainly the novel features numerous death-scenes, all conveyed with a depth of sympathy that contrasts with the queasy iambics with which Dickens orchestrated the notorious demise of Little Nell. Mrs Gaskell was not, like Dickens, a London-based novelist observing the sufferings of the provincial poor with a journalistic detachment - as evidenced in his own admirable, Lancashire-based novel Hard Times. Gaskell lived among the people whose attenuated lives she chronicled - and however hesitantly, as a début novelist, she rendered their experience in literary terms, her writing presents us with a true insight into the sufferings of individuals at a point in history when the mass of human beings fell casualty to the forms of economic progress following upon the Industrial Revolution. Most impressively she called into question the political and social cost of creating a resentful proletariat despairing of survival in (to quote Karl Marx) a heartless world.
Our reader Tony Foster is a resident of Manchester and a near-neighbour of Mrs Gaskell (allowing for their separation in time). His superb narration renders the native speech of her characters with an authenticity which ideally conveys the spirit of this book. A truly moving experience awaits everyone who gives ear to this 'Tale of Manchester Life'. (Summary by Martin Geeson)
This is a Librivox recording. If you want to volunteer please visit As a member of the partnership program, I earn from purchases that meet the requirements. #PricelessAudiobooks,#librivox,#librivoxaudiobook,#audiobook,#audiobooks
Elizabeth Gaskell - A Manchester Marriage (1/3)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (September 29, 1810 – November 12, 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Gaskell was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on 29 September 1810 at 93 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. She was the youngest of eight children; only she and her brother John survived infancy. Her father, William Stevenson, was a Scottish Unitarian minister at Failsworth, Lancashire, but resigned his orders on conscientious grounds and moved to London in 1806 with the intention of going to India after he was appointed private secretary to the Earl of Lauderdale, who was to become Governor General of India.
That position did not materialise, however, and instead Stevenson was nominated Keeper of the Treasury Records. His wife, Elizabeth Holland, came from a family from the English Midlands that was connected with other prominent Unitarian families, including the Wedgwoods, the Turners and the Darwins. After she died 13 months after giving birth to her youngest daughter, she left a bewildered husband who saw no alternative for Elizabeth but to be sent to live with her mother's sister, Hannah Lumb, in Knutsford, Cheshire.
While she was growing up Elizabeth's future was uncertain, as she had no personal wealth and no firm home, though she was a permanent guest at her aunt and grandparents' house. Her father married Catherine Thomson in 1814 and they had a son, William (born 1815), and a daughter, Catherine (born 1816). Although Elizabeth spent several years without seeing her father and his new family, her older brother John often visited her in Knutsford. John was destined for the Royal Navy from an early age, like his grandfathers and uncles, but he had no entry and had to join the Merchant Navy with the East India Company's fleet.
John went missing in 1827 during an expedition to India. Much of Elizabeth's childhood was spent in Cheshire, where she lived with her aunt Hannah Lumb in Knutsford, a town she immortalised as Cranford. They lived in a large red-brick house called Heathwaite, on Heathside (now Gaskell Avenue), which faces the large open area of Knutsford Heath. From 1821 to 1826 she attended a school run by the Miss Byerlys at Barford House, and after that Avonbank in Stratford-on-Avon where she received the traditional education in arts, the classics, decorum and propriety given to young ladies at the time. Her aunts gave her the classics to read, and she was encouraged by her father in her studies and writing. Her brother John sent her modern books, and descriptions of his life at sea and his experiences abroad.
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Behind the scenes of Gaskell: The Musical!
Short film about the Gaskell: The Musical project, where local women devised and performed an original musical at Elizabeth Gaskell's House in June 2016. This project was delivered by enJOY arts and Claire Mooney, in partnership with Elizabeth Gaskell's House, with funding from Arts Council England, One Manchester Community Fund and Places for People.
MARY BARTON: Elizabeth Gaskell - FULL AudioBook: Part 1/2
MARY BARTON by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian working class. It is subtitled A Tale of Manchester Life.
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Publication date: 1848
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00:00:00 - Preface
00:04:16 - Chapter 1: A Mysterious Disappearance
00:24:55 - Chapter 2: A Manchester Tea-Party
00:40:11 - Chapter 3: John Barton's Great Trouble
01:02:48 - Chapter 4: Old Alice's History
01:25:52 - Chapter 5: The Mill on Fire - Jem Wilson to The Rescue
02:10:34 - Chapter 6: Poverty And Death
02:52:08 - Chapter 7: Jem Wilson's Repulse
03:11:58 - Chapter 8: Margaret's Debut as a Public Singer
03:47:49 - Chapter 9: Barton's London Experiences
04:23:46 - Chapter 10: Return of The Prodigal
04:56:10 - Chapter 11: Mr. Carson's Intentions Revealed
05:28:56 - Chapter 12: Old Alice's Bairn
05:49:42 - Chapter 13: A Traveller's Tales
06:11:05 - Chapter 14: Jem's Interview With Poor Esther
06:38:48 - Chapter 15: A Violent Meeting Between The Rivals
07:09:36 - Chapter 16: Meeting Between Masters and Workmen
07:35:43 - Chapter 17: Barton's Night Errand
07:59:40 - Chapter 18: Murder
08:27:30 - Chapter 19: Jem Wilson Arrested on Suspicion
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2) | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Audiobook | 1/9
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Plymouth Grove
Discovering your family tree can reveal the most amazing connections. I recently found out I have an ancestor the Rev William Gaskell (my 1st cousin 5 times removed). He was an amazing man who married Elizabeth Gaskell the authoress !!.
This video is a tour of what was their family home - 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester - recently renovated with great attention to detail. Carpets, wallpaper patterns duplicating fragments found in the house and original artifacts owned by William and Elizabeth Gaskell.
The Gaskells were friends of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte (Elizabeth wrote her biography), William Wordsworth, Florence Nightingale, Charles Halle (who taught their children to play the piano at Plymouth Grove), John Ruskin, Rupert Potter (father of Beatrix Potter to whom William was Godfather) and many other social reformers, politicians, literary and influential people of the day. Elizabeth completed a number of her literary works at Plymouth Grove
Researching William Gaskell reveals an extraordinary philanthropic man with tremendous intellectual ability, stamina, vision and social responsibility. His immense contribution to the social and educational life of Manchester is his legacy.
I will be a regular visitor to Plymouth Grove.
Neil Gaskell.
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This is the Anglican Parish Church of Liverpool.The site is said to have been a place of worship since at least 1257.The spire was once used for shipping navigation.On 11th February 1810 ,the bells rang,+people gathered for morning service.The spire crashed into the nave below,killing 25 people.Twenty-one were under 15 year's old.The original ring of 6 bells,dating from 1636-1724 was destroyed in the disaster.Between 1811 +1815 ,a new tower+ lantern were built at the North side of the Church.⛪
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Beast from the East Brings Down Giant Tree in Knutsford, Cheshire
Beast from the East Brings Down Giant Tree in Knutsford, Cheshire
A giant tree was brought crashing down across a main road into the busy market town Knutsford in Cheshire as the “Beast From The East” brought dangerously high winds to the UK.
The Cheshire Police had to block roads and the highway maintenance services were there quickly to try and remove the huge tree.
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