Author:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
(1810–1865)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Works

Novels

• Mary Barton (1848)
  • First Edition (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
  • Second Edition
  • Third Edition
  • Fourth Edition - Published without Gaskell's involvement.
  • 1854 Edition - The last edition prepared by the author.
• Cranford (1851-1853)
  • Serial - Serialized in Household Words (December 1851 - May 1853)
  • First Edition - June 1853
• Ruth (1853)
  • First Edition (January 1853) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3) - Base Text for the Oxford Edition
  • Cheap Edition (1855)
• North and South, first edition, in two volumes
  • Second Edition - The base text for the Clarendon edition
• Sylvia's lovers (1863) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
• Cousin Phillis (1864) (transcription project)
• Wives and Daughters (1865) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

Collections

• The Moorland Cottage (1850)
• The Old Nurse's Story (1852)
• Lizzie Leigh (1855)
• My Lady Ludlow (1859)
• Round the Sofa (1859)
• Lois the Witch (1861)
• The Grey Woman (collection) (1861)
• A Dark Night's Work and Other Tales (1890) (external scan)
  • A Dark Night's Work — Cousin Phillis — The Grey Woman — The Heart of John Middleton — Traits and Stories of the Huguenots — Six Weeks at Heppenheim — Lizzie Leigh — The Crooked Branch — The Sexton's Hero

Short stories and novellas

(partial list)

• Half a Life-time Ago (1855)
• A Dark Night's Work (1863)

• Libbie Marsh's Three Eras (1847)
• Christmas Storms and Sunshine (1848)
• The Squire's Story (1853)
• An Accursed Race (1855)
• The Poor Clare (1856)
• "The Manchester Marriage" (1858), a chapter of A House to Let, co-written with Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Adelaide Anne Procter
• The Half-brothers (1859)
• The Grey Woman (1861)

Non-fiction

• The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

Works about Gaskell

• "Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)