522 Pages
    by Routledge

    522 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    1: The Diary; 2: ‘On Visiting the Grave of Stillborn Little Girl Sunday, July 4th, 1836’; 3: ‘Sketches Among the Poor, No. I’; 4: ‘Clopton Hall’; 5: ‘Cheshire Customs’; 6: ‘Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras’; 7: ‘The Sexton’s Hero’; 8: ‘Emerson’s Lectures’; 9: ‘Christmas Storms and Sunshine’; 10: ‘Hand and Heart’; 11: ‘Martha Preston’; 12: ‘Lizzie Leigh’; 13: ‘The Well of Pen-Morfa’; 14: ‘The Heart of John Middleton’; 15: ‘Disappearance’; 16: Reviews in The Athenaeum; 17: ‘Bessy’s Troubles at Home’; 18: ‘The Schah’s English Gardener’; 19: ‘Cumberland Sheep-Shearers’; 20: ‘Traits and Stories of the Huguenots’; 21: ‘Modern Greek Songs’; 22: ‘Company Manners’; 23: Preface to Mabel Vaughan; 24: ‘An Incident at Niagara Falls’; 25: Preface To Colonel Vecchj, Garibaldi at Caprera; 26: ‘Shams’; 27: ‘An Italian Institution’; 28: ‘Robert Gould Shaw’; 29: ‘French Life’; 30: Review of W. T. M. Torrens, Lancashire’s Lesson; 31: Two Fragments of Ghost Stories

    Biography

    Angus Easson, Joanne Shattock, Josie Billington, Deidre d'Albertis, Linda K Hughes, Elisabeth Jay, Charlotte Mitchell, Linda H. Peterson, Marion Shaw, Alan Shelston, Joanne Wilkes