84 Plymouth Grove
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84 Plymouth Grove, now known as Elizabeth Gaskell's House, is a writer's house museum in Manchester, England. The Grade II* listed neoclassical villa was the residence of William and Elizabeth Gaskell
The front and side façades of 84 Plymouth Grove, now known as Elizabeth Gaskell's House
Elizabeth Gaskell, in portrait of 1851 by George Richmond
Charlotte Brontë, one of the many guests who stayed at 84 Plymouth Grove on various occasions
84 Plymouth Grove pictured in 2009, immediately before restoration work began
William Gaskell
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William Gaskell was an English Unitarian minister, charity worker and pioneer in the education of the working class. The husband of novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, he was himself a writer a
William Gaskell on holiday in Scotland (photograph by Rupert Potter, father of Beatrix Potter)
Cross Street Chapel c. 1835
Manchester Mechanics' Institute, Cooper Street (1825)
84 Plymouth Grove, Gaskell's home from 1850