Facelift for Gaskell's Home

On BrontëBlog we have been following the news concerning the rehabilitation of Elizabeth Gaskell's house 84 Plymouth Grove in Manchester. The Manchester Evening News briefly publishes something more today:

STUDENTS at Manchester Business School are to help with a £2m project to restore the home of Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the city's most famous authors.
The team has been asked to generate funding for the scheme, secure sponsorship and develop community initiatives at Gaskell House on Plymouth Grove.
The property is being restored in a scheme headed by the Manchester Historic Buildings Trust.
It will become a centre for study of the Gaskell family and provide facilities for people living in the area.
It was there that Elizabeth Gaskell wrote novels such as North And South and Wives And Daughters, and where she hosted the likes of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Hallé and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Prof Michael Luger, the business school's director, said: "We're delighted to be working on what is such an important project for the city.
"It's great to see our students strengthening links with the community is such a tangible way." (Kevin Feddy)

Remember that the Gaskell Society gives you the chance of becoming a Friend of 84 Plymouth Grove and contribute somehow to its recovery and maintenance.

In The Telegraph & Argus we can read today a letter complaining about the state of public toilets in the car park adjacent to the Parsonage:

As we wished to visit toilets before going in [the Parsonage], we asked at the museum entrance, only to be told that they had no toilets for public use, but there were some at the opposite corner of the Museum car park.
We were horrified at the state of those public conveniences - though I would say that they had probably been cleaned that morning - the state of the facilities being long overdue for refurbishment. (Gordon Cocking)

Finally, some brief blogosphere mentions. Call Me Ishmael reviews, among some others, Wuthering Heights in a quite interesting post. And on Pierian Springs, a virtual LJ community, you can read about the (unlikely) encounters of Machiavello and Charlotte Brontë or Louise May Alcott and the author of Jane Eyre.

Categories: Haworth, In the News, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights