Shock, Surprise, Prose & Verse: Manchester and Literature
Saturday 29 September, 3pm
This tour takes place on the date of Elizabeth Gaskell's birthday, one of the city's most fascinating and skilful writers. She would be 208 years old.
On this stroll round the city we'll be looking at Gaskell's work and legacy but also at a whole pantheon of other literary luminaries, some Manchester-born, some Manchester-adopted and some just passing through. Expect Charles Dickens, Val McDermid, Anthony Burgess, Karl Marx, Dodie Smith, Maisie Mosco, JB Priestley, Les Dawson, Howard Jacobson, Carol Ann Duffy and many others all having their say, displaying Manchester’s multi-cultural melting pot of literature.
As JB Priestley said in 1937, ‘Perhaps the secret of the Manchester character is that it is nine-tenths hard north country grit, solid Lancashire bone and muscle and brain, plus a remaining tenth, acting as a leaven, of liberal-minded and enterprising foreign influence, a contribution from Europe.’
There'll even be some poetry of a stirring nature and perhaps some nonsense poetry too.
The price is £10 and the meeting point is outside St Ann's Church, M2 7LF.
The receipt from Paypal acts as your ticket.
On this stroll round the city we'll be looking at Gaskell's work and legacy but also at a whole pantheon of other literary luminaries, some Manchester-born, some Manchester-adopted and some just passing through. Expect Charles Dickens, Val McDermid, Anthony Burgess, Karl Marx, Dodie Smith, Maisie Mosco, JB Priestley, Les Dawson, Howard Jacobson, Carol Ann Duffy and many others all having their say, displaying Manchester’s multi-cultural melting pot of literature.
As JB Priestley said in 1937, ‘Perhaps the secret of the Manchester character is that it is nine-tenths hard north country grit, solid Lancashire bone and muscle and brain, plus a remaining tenth, acting as a leaven, of liberal-minded and enterprising foreign influence, a contribution from Europe.’
There'll even be some poetry of a stirring nature and perhaps some nonsense poetry too.
The price is £10 and the meeting point is outside St Ann's Church, M2 7LF.
The receipt from Paypal acts as your ticket.