Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810–1865)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Works

Novels

• Mary Barton (1848)
• Cranford (1851-1853)
• Ruth (1853)
• North and South (1854-1855) (Commons file (multiple parts): Part 1, Part 2)
• Sylvia's lovers (1863)
• Cousin Phillis (1864)
• Wives and Daughters (1865)

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)
• A Dark Night's Work (1863)

Short stories (partial)

• Libbie Marsh's Three Eras (1847)
• Christmas Storms and Sunshine (1848)
• The Squire's Story (1853)
• Half a Life-time Ago (1855)
• 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)

Works about Gaskell

• “Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn” in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• “Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,” in Dictionary of National Biography, 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.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.