ABSTRACT

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

chapter 1|25 pages

The Diary

chapter 3|6 pages

‘Sketches Among the Poor, No. I’

chapter 4|5 pages

‘Clopton Hall’

chapter 5|4 pages

‘Cheshire Customs’

chapter 6|23 pages

‘Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras’

chapter 7|10 pages

‘The Sexton’s Hero’

chapter 8|6 pages

‘Emerson’s Lectures’

chapter 9|11 pages

‘Christmas Storms and Sunshine’

chapter 10|17 pages

‘Hand and Heart’

chapter 11|12 pages

‘Martha Preston’

chapter 12|27 pages

‘Lizzie Leigh’

chapter 13|19 pages

‘The Well of Pen-Morfa’

chapter 14|20 pages

‘The Heart of John Middleton’

chapter 15|10 pages

‘Disappearance’

chapter 16|12 pages

Reviews in The Athenaeum

chapter 17|17 pages

‘Bessy’s Troubles at Home’

chapter 18|11 pages

‘The Schah’s English Gardener’

chapter 19|13 pages

‘Cumberland Sheep-Shearers’

chapter 20|13 pages

‘Traits and Stories of the Huguenots’

chapter 21|16 pages

‘Modern Greek Songs’

chapter 22|18 pages

‘Company Manners’

chapter 23|3 pages

Preface to Mabel Vaughan

chapter 24|7 pages

‘An Incident at Niagara Falls’

chapter 26|14 pages

‘Shams’

chapter 27|8 pages

‘An Italian Institution’

chapter 28|9 pages

‘Robert Gould Shaw’

chapter 29|53 pages

‘French Life’

chapter 31|8 pages

Two Fragments of Ghost Stories