Elizabeth Gaskell's House
Restored Victorian villa where a novelist wrote and hosted Dickens, Brontë, Ruskin and Hallé.
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This audio guide to Elizabeth Gaskell's House in Manchester centres on the drawing room in April 1853, when Charlotte Brontë was a guest here and a hopeful admirer came to call. Along the way you'll meet the pianist Charles Hallé teaching the Gaskell daughters, and John Ruskin advising Meta Gaskell on the watercolours that hang here today. Best heard standing in the drawing room, near the window.
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