Today, October 13, an alert from the Manchester Literature Festival:Weightmans Literary Tours
Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester
13 October 2015
Tuesday 1.30pm until 4.00pm
St Ann's Church
St Ann's Street,
Manchester,
M2 7LF
Tickets £16
(includes tea, cake and a tour of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House)
When Mrs Gaskell’s Mary Barton appeared in 1848, it kicked up a storm in cultured Mancunia. Could the wife of the Unitarian minister at Cross Street Chapel really have written so vituperative an account of those kindly, God-fearing mill owners? Ed Glinert leads this walk around sights and sites significant to the life and work of this fascinating writer, finishing up with a visit to the historic and recently re-opened Elizabeth Gaskell’s House. Ed is the author of The Literary Guide to London and The Manchester Compendium, and is editor of the Sherlock Holmes stories for Penguin Classics. Meet outside St Ann's Church.
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