Female : Novelist. Unitarian. Home Educated. Brought up by an aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire. Married Manchester clergyman, William Gaskell, 1832. Met Charlotte Bronte in 1850 and began a firm friendship

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Chelsea, London

Date of Birth : 1810 Date of Death : 1865 Age : 55

Pseudonyms : Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson. Cotton Mather Mills

1848-1850
(In) William Howitt's "Visits ro remarkable PLaces" (1840)
[She wrote the chapter on Straford-upon-Avon]
Mary Barton : A Tale of Manchester Life (1848 Chapman & Hall) - Anon. 2 vols
Libbie Marsh's Three Eras : A Lancashire Tale (1850 Hamilton, Adams & Co)
The Sexton's Hero (1850 Johnson, Rawson & Co, Manchester)
The Moorland Cottage (1850 C & H) - Birket Foster

1851-1855
Lizzie Leigh & Other Tales (1852 Smith Elder)
Ruth : A Novel (1853 C & H) - 3 vols. Anon
Offered in 1999 for £850
Cranford (1853 Chapman & Hall)
[Written anonymously it depicts the gentleness of provincial life,
It was first published in "Household Words"]
Offered in 1999 for £750
(1853 Harper, NY)
(1864 Smith Elder) - George Du Maurier
(1891 Macmillan) - Hugh Thomson
(1896 Bliss & Sands) - T H Robinson
(1900 Nisbet) - H M Brock
(1904 Dent) - E Brock
(1914 A & C Black) - Sybil Tawse
(1914 Methuen) - E H New
(1940 Harrap) - Joan Hassall
(1985 Black Swan Press) - reissue of one above
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North and South (1855 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £1200
(1855 Tauchnitz)
The Sexton's Hero; and Christmas Storms and Sunshine (1855 C & H)

1856-1865
The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857 Smith Elder) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £350
(1857 Appleton, NY) - 2 vols
Round the Sofa (1858 Sampson Low) - 2 vols. ss
My Lady Ludlow & Other Tales (1861 Sampson Low) - single Vol of the above
Right at Last & Other Tales (1860 Sampson Low)
Lois the Witch & Other Tales (1861 Tauchnitz)
A Dark Night's Work (1863 Smith Elder)
Sylvia's Lovers (1863 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
Sylvia's Lovers (1863 Smith Elder) - 3 vols. 2nd Ed with George Du Maurier
Cousin Phillis & Other Tales (1865 Smith Elder) - George Du Maurier
The Grey Woman & Other Tales (1865 SE) - George Du Maurier

1866-1900
Wives and Daughters : An Everyday Story (1866 Harper NY)
(1866 Smith Elder) - 2 vols. Unfinished. George Du Maurier
The Novels and Tales of Elizabeth Gaskell (1878-82 Smith Elder) - 7 vols

20thC
Works : Knutsford Edition (1906 Smith Elder) - 8 vols
Sylvia's Lovers (1910 G Bell & Sons) - M V Wheelhouse
Wives and Daughters : An Everyday Story (1912 Herbert & Daniel)
- 2 vols. Unfinished. M V Wheelhouse
Letters on Charlotte Bronte (Ed Clement Shorter) (1915 PP) - Ltd Ed 25
My Diary : The Early Years of My Daughter Marianne (1923 PP by Clement Shorter) - Ltd Ed 50
Letters of Mrs Gaskell & Charles Eliot Norton, 1855-65 (ed Jane Whitehill) (1932 OUP)
The Cage at Cranford & Other Stories (1937 Nelson Classics)
The Half-Brothers (1943 Gulliver Book Co) - ss
The Squire's Story (1943 Todd Publishing Co) (1944 Vallancy Press) - ss
The Letters of Elizabeth Gaskell (Ed J A V Chapple & Arthur Pollard)
(1966 Manchester UP) (1967 Harvard UP)
Mrs Gaskell's Tales of Mystery & Horror (1978 Gollancz)
Four Short Stories (1983 Pandora) - pb

READING
1895-1930
William E A Axon & Ernest Axon : Gaskell Bibliography - A List of the Writings of Mrs Gaskell
and of her Husband, Rev William Gaskell
(Reprinted from the papers of the Manchester Literary Club 1894-5)
(1895 John Heywood, Manchester) - 22pp Pb
Mrs Ellis H Chadwick : Mrs Gaskell - Haunts, Homes and Stories (1913 Pitman. New Ed)
George A Payne : Mrs Gaskell - A Brief Biography (1929 Sherratt & Hughes, Manchester)
Gerald de W Sanders : Elizabeth Gaskell (1929 New Haven)
A Stanton Whitfield : Mrs Gaskell - Her Life & Work (1929 Routledge)
Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane : Mrs Gaskell and Her Friends (1930 Hodder & Stoughton)

1931-1970
M L Parrish : Victorian Lady Novelists (1933 Dormy House, New Jersey)
David Cecil : In His Early Victorian Novelists (1934)
Yvonne French : Mrs Gaskell (1949 Home & Van Thal)
Annette B Hopkins : Elizabeth Gaskell - Her Life and Work (1952)
Arthur Pollard : Mrs Gaskell - Novelist & Biographer (1965 Manchester)
J G Sharpe : Mrs Gaskell's Observation and Invention - A Study of Her
Non-Biographic Works (1970 Linden Press, London)

After 1971
Coral Lawsbury : Elizabeth Gaskell - The Novel of Social Crisis (1975)
Winifred Gerin : Elizabeth Gaskell (1976 OUP £5.75)
Angus Easson : Elizabeth Gaskell (1979)
(Ed) J A V Chapple : Elizabeth Gaskell - A Portrait in Letters (1980 Manchester UP)
Patsy Stoneman : Elizabeth Gaskell (1987)
(Ed) Angus Easson : Elizabeth Gaskell - The Critical Heritage (1991 Routledge)
Jane Spencer : Elizabeth Gaskell (1992)
Jenny Uglow : Elizabeth Gaskell : A Habit of Stories (1993 Faber £20)
Nancy S Weyant : Elizabeth Gaskell - An Annotated Bibliography of English
Language Sources 1976-1991 (1994 Scarecrow Press, NJ)
John Chapple : Elizabeth Gaskell - The Early Years (1997 Manchester UP)