Initiated with the Dickens Journals Online project at Buckingham University, this exhibition has a comprehensive selection of Victorian journalism: picture-papers, newspapers, magazines and periodical publications. Elizabeth Gaskell, the Victorian novelist and short-story writer, whose home in Manchester is now a public museum, used periodicals such as Household Words and All the Year Round (both edited by Charles Dickens) to get her stories printed in the public realm. Visitors will be able to browse through a wide selection of publications from radical newspapers to magazines for women, all within the context of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, where such publications would have been the highly anticipated carriers of Victorian life, far from the immediacy of modern-day media.
Sun 20 Sep 2015 – Sun 10 Jan 2016, Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, 84 Plymouth Grove, M13 9LW, Wed, Thu & Sun 11am – 4.30pm (Last entry 4pm), Adults £4.95, Concession £3.95, Children FREE, www.elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk
Image: Illustration (adapted) from Wives and Daughters in the Cornhill Magazine
- Words:
- Daisy Kidd
- Published on:
- Sun 6 Dec 2015
