Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester

When Mrs Gaskell’s Mary Barton appeared in 1848, it kicked up a storm in cultured Mancunia.

Could the wife of the Unitarian minister at Cross Street Chapel really have written so vituperative an account of those kindly, God-fearing mill owners?

Ed Glinert leads this walk around sights and sites significant to the life and work of this fascinating writer, finishing up with a visit to the historic and recently re-opened Elizabeth Gaskell’s House.

Ed is the author of The Literary Guide to London and The Manchester Compendium, and is editor of the Sherlock Holmes stories for Penguin Classics.