Manchester Lit&Phil Literary Book Club

Overview

Elizabeth Gaskell, one of Britain’s most highly regarded Victorian novelists, lived at 84 Plymouth Grove in Manchester when the city was the epicentre of an industrial and social quake. It’s little wonder her books often depicted socially-conscious portrayals of industrial life in Manchester, class conflict, and the experiences of women.

She’s perhaps best known for her novels Cranford and North and South, as well as her celebrated biography of her contemporary and friend Charlotte Brontë. We’ll be discussing her last – and unfinished – novel Wives and Daughters: a story of romance, scandal and intrigue set in a gossiping English village during the early nineteenth century.

The Manchester Lit&Phil Literary Book Club is free and exclusively for members, operating on a first come first serve basis, up to a maximum of 15 people.

Save the date and start reading

May 26 book club: A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh. (Contemporary fiction)

June 30 book club: The Places in Between, Rory Stewart (Non-fiction)

Lit & Phil Literary Book Club: Tuesday April 28

Book: Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell

Time: 6.15pm to 7.45pm

Location: Chief Librarian’s Office, Third Floor, Manchester Central Library, St Peters Square, City Centre, M2 5PD