HISTORY | An afternoon talk about Knutsford’s Famous Daughter Elizabeth Gaskell
Libby Tempest, Vice Chair of the Gaskell Society, will talk about this extraordinary woman, who spent her formative years in Knutsford which was the inspiration for her novels ‘Cranford’ and ‘Wives and Daughters’. Elizabeth Gaskell also wrote novels on Industrial Manchester and the social history happening all around her, as society rapidly transitioned from rural […]