Yesterday was Elizabeth Gaskell's 209th birthday.
Insider Media featured Ellie Algieri, room hire and wedding coordinator at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House in Manchester. She has a point when she says,
If you are looking for a venue to inspire, then there aren’t many places where you can literally walk in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens – and if that isn’t enough to tempt you, we even have replica Victorian clothes for dressing up!
The Berkshire Edge reviews
Negroland, a memoir by Margo Jefferson.
She is twenty-five years old and has spent her life studying French and Latin, astronomy and history; reading Spenser, Milton, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Dickens, the Brontës, Emerson, and Stowe … She has socialized with renowned abolitionists, colored and white; she faithfully attends literary lectures and antislavery meetings; she always disparages the occasional poem or essay she contributes to antislavery journals. (Dook Snyder)
Heather is discussed in the
Twin Cities Pioneer Press.
Famously well-adapted to the Scottish Highlands, whose climate is similar to that of Scandinavia, they clothe the hills (also known as moors) in a way that blends well with dark skies and brooding people. The heath is treated almost like a character in Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights.” (Bonnie Blodgett)
The Independent (Ireland) uses
The Vanished Bride by Bella Ellis to discuss the recent trend of having real people (the Mitfords, Agatha Christie and now the Brontës) in fictional whodunnits.
AnneBrontë.org traces the life of the Brontës' cousin on their mother's side Eliza Kingston.
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