Meetings & Events

Meetings

North West Group

Manchester Meetings
Gaskell Society Meetings at Cross Street Chapel
The Manchester meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of
the month in Cross Street Chapel, Manchester
(near The Royal Exchange Theatre) at 1.00pm.

The Chapel will usually be open at 12 o’clock so that you can bring
in lunch from one of the local sandwich bars-or bring your own! 
We have been told that we can use the Dining Room for our lunch,
provided that we vacate the room by 12.40p.m, so that it may
be prepared for use by another group at 1 p.m. This being the case,
it will be advisable to arrive in good time, if you wish to eat your lunch
in comfort! Tea and coffee is provided for a small donation to the chapel’s funds

This session we are looking at novelists contemporary with Elizabeth Gaskell

Tuesday 4 October       
A Talk on Anthony Trollope given by Howard Gregg

Tuesday 1 November  
A Talk on Charles Dickens given by Anita Fernandez Young

Tuesday 6 December   
J'accuse! The case of The Moorland Cottage, and The Mill on the Floss: was George Eliot guilty of plagiarism? -a discussion between Shirley Foster and Jo Pryke

Tuesday 7 February      
The Crisis of Faith in the 19th century -a talk by Alex Bradley

Tuesday 6 March          
A Talk on William Makepeace Thackeray given by Professor Richard Pearson

For further information about events held at Cross Street Chapel
visit the website here

Saturday 14 April
The Gaskell Society AGM
Cross Street Unitarian Church, Manchester
Details to be announced.

Knutsford Meetings
Our meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month in
St John's Church parish rooms, Knutsford, Cheshire.

An excellent buffet lunch is served at 12.15 (cost £8, pay on the day)
followed by a talk and discussion, led by Elizabeth Williams which will
start about 1.30pm. Meetings finish about 3p.m.

Stories to be studied during this session are Half a Lifetime Ago, The Manchester Marriage and My Lady Ludlow
 
Wednesday 11 January 2012
New Year Lunch at Cottons Hotel, Manchester Road, Knutsford
A date for your diary !    Contact Janet Kennerley by 31st December if you wish to attend - pre-booking and payment essential -
telephone 01477 571525 or email - janetkennerley@hotmail.com

General Meetings
To be announced.

London and South East Branch

Saturday 11 February 2012
Science Liberality and Good Taste:
The Manchester Botanic Garden and its founders.
Dr Ann Brooks.
 
Saturday 12 May
Domestic Arts in Mary Barton and North and South.  
Alison Lundie.

Francis Holland School, Graham Terrace, SW1.
2 minute walk from Sloane Square tube station (District and Circle Lines).
-10 minute walk from Victoria.
 
The formal meeting begins at 2pm but you are welcome to join us for a sandwich lunch anytime from 12.45pm onwards. Please ring the bell marked ‘Reception’ by the main door in Graham Terrace and someone will let you in. After the talk, tea and cake.
 
In addition there is a Bring and Buy bookstall in aid of The Gaskell House, Plymouth Grove Manchester.
 
You are warmly invited.  We ask for a contribution of £5.00 for the afternoon to include everything.
 
Further details from Dr Fran Twinn  frantwinn@aflex.net

Yorkshire  Group

I am sorry to announce that there will be no further meetings of the Yorkshire Group. Support for the group has fallen to such a degree that meetings were running at a financial loss. Reluctantly therefore it was decided that there was no choice other than to close the group.

On behalf of Dudley Barlow, Howard Gregg, Teresa Smith and myself I would like to thank those members who have attended meetings in the past and also to thank the members of the National Committee who were a constant support to us.
Thank you and Best Wishes

Kate Smith shepleysmiths@tiscali.co.uk

The Gaskell Society South-West

Events are held in Bath.

Saturday, 25 February 2012, 2.15 pm.  Discussion group at Elizabeth Schlenther’s, 14 Vellore Lane, Bath, BA2 6JQ, on Sylvia’s Lovers  (Tel: 01225  331763) £3 per person.  Tea and coffee to be provided.
 
Saturday, 24 March 2012, 2.15 pm.  Continuing our discussion group on Sylvia’s Lovers at Bren Abercrombie’s, 12 Mount Road, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5PW (Tel: 01225 471241) £3 per person.  Tea and coffee to be provided.
 
Saturday, 21 April 2012, 2.30 pm.  At the BRLSI, Queen Square, Bath, we will have an illustrated talk by Robin Allan:  Every Story Needs a Picture.  The nineteenth century was the golden age of the illustrated novel, and this talk will examine the artists’ work in famous novels by Dickens and others, including George Cruikshank, Gustave Dore and George du Maurier and Birket Foster, both of whom illustrated Elizabeth Gaskell.  Members are invited to bring their own illustrated volumes to display.  £2 to members of the BRLSI and the Gaskell Society South-West; £4 to all others.  Refreshments will be available at an additional cost of £1.
 
There will be a summer social as usual, details to be announced later.

Any queries to Mrs. Elizabeth Schlenther 14 Vellore Lane, Bath BA2 6JQ

Friends of The Gaskells' House
are holding a Dickens Day at the Gaskell House, 84 Plymouth Grove,
on Saturday 24th March. The cost will be £20, including lunch.
Further details to follow soon.


Events

Special Manchester Art Gallery Tours
Sunday 12 February, 1pm
and Saturday 3 March 2012, 2.30pm

Nirvana Rommell, our treasured guide, who has taken us on various tours around the Art Gallery in the past,  is providing two special tours to raise money for The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths

Titles of Tours 
A Short History of British Art
then either The Portraits Tour or The Gossips Tour
(knickerless dancing, wife swapping, imperial tea parties, porcelain smuggling, etc.)

Price per tour per person is £6, or £10 if a person books 2 different tours

To book email nirvana.rommell@googlemail.com   
or phone 01625 537 920

All proceeds to FSID

Mrs Gaskell 1864

Knutsford, Cheshire 1800s

Cross Street Chapel
Manchester 1856

The Gaskell Medallion, Knutsford