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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Electronic Edition. book cover

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Electronic Edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-098-1
Language: English
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. Chalk drawing by George Richmond, c. 1851
Within a few months of composing ‘My Lady Ludlow’, therefore, Gaskell had taken the decision to associate it with Edinburgh, with a society cosmopolitan yet provincial, professional, intellectual, liberal, ethnically diverse. The special character of post-Enlightenment Scotland is notorious; Scottish education, cheap, broad and egalitarian in comparison with English, had created an educated class in Edinburgh both more intellectual and more diverse in social origin than elsewhere, where a lively and intellectual salon culture flourished. Without any apparent warrant from the stories she was compiling, Gaskell chose to associate her tales with this setting.

Volume 3. Novellas and Shorter Fiction, from the Introduction

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. General editor, Joanne Shattock. Advisory editor: Angus Easson. Volume editors: Joanne Shattock, Linda Peterson, Josie Billington, Alan Shelston, Charlotte Mitchell, Elisabeth Jay, Linda K Hughes, Deirdre d'Albertis, Marion Shaw, Joanne Wilkes. 10 vols. Part I, vols. 1-3, 5, 7. Part II, vols. 4, 6, 8-10. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005-2006.

  • Vol. 1. Journalism, Early Fiction and Personal Writings. Edited by Joanne Shattock
  • Vol. 2. Novellas and Shorter Fiction: The Moorland Cottage, Cranford and Related Writing. Edited by Alan Shelston
  • Vol. 3. Novellas and Shorter Fiction: Round the Sofa and Tales from Household Words 1852–1859
  • Vol. 4. Novellas and Shorter Fiction: “Cousin Phillis and other Tales” from All the Year Round and the Cornhill Magazine 1859–1864. Edited by Linda Hughes
  • Vol. 5. Mary Barton (1848) and William Gaskell, Two lectures on the Lancashire dialect. Edited by Joanne Wilkes
  • Vol. 6. Ruth (1853). Edited by Deirdre d'Albertis
  • Vol. 7. North and South (1855). Edited by Elisabeth Jay
  • Vol. 8. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Edited by Linda H. Peterson
  • Vol. 9. Sylvia's Lovers (1863). Edited by Marion Shaw
  • Vol. 10. Wives and Daughters (1866). Edited by Josie Billington


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