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The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson
1810–65
Gaskell’s surviving mss are mainly located in the United Kingdom. The chief
holdings are in Leeds in the Brotherton Lib of the Univ; in Manchester in the
John Rylands Univ Lib of Manchester (combining the holdings of the Univ
and the former John Rylands Lib) and in the Central Public Lib. Holders in the
USA include the Houghton Lib, Harvard Univ, and the Berg Collection, NYPL.
For listings of holdings, see J. A. V. Chapple and A. Pollard, Letters of Mrs
Gaskell, Manchester 1966 (appendix B); J. G. Sharps, Mrs Gaskell’s
observation and invention, Fontwell Sussex 1970 (bibliography (b));
IELM 4 1800–1900 (A–G), 1982; and D. Sutton (ed), Location register
of English literary manuscripts and letters: 18th and 19th centuries,
1995.
Bibliographies of primary material
Green, J. A. A bibliographical guide to the Gaskell collection in Moss
Side Library. Manchester 1911. Includes vol contents of collections;
the material is now in the Manchester Central Lib.
Sadleir, M. In his Excursions in Victorian bibliography, 1922.
‘Editiones principes’ only.
Northup, C. S. In G. D. Sanders, Elizabeth Gaskell, New Haven CT
1929. Includes vol contents of collections and reprints after 1865.
Quinn, M. Elizabeth Gaskell and nineteenth-century literature:
manuscripts from the John Rylands University Library,
Manchester: a history and a guide to the research publications
microfilm collection. Manchester 1989.
Collections
The works. 17 vols Leipzig 1849–67. Eng lang edns pbd by Tauchnitz
for circulation on the Continent only. Includes Gaskell’s edn of
Cummins’s Mabel Vaughan (see §1 below); The life of Charlotte
Brontë 2 vols 1857 (replaced by rev and corrected edn 2 vols 1859);
Ruth 2 vols; Sylvia’s lovers 2 vols; and Wives and daughters 3 vols.
For dates and contents of 3 vols of collected pieces, see §1, below,
and Northup, above.
Novels and tales. 7 vols 1872–3 (illustr G. du Maurier); variously reissued.
Details of vols and contents in Green, above.
Novels and tales. 8 vols 1892–4 pocket edn. Details of vols and contents
in Green, above.
The works: Knutsford edn. Ed A. W. Ward 8 vols 1906. Biographical
and critical introds; omits The life of Charlotte Brontë and a few
shorter items. For details of vols and contents, see §1, below, and
Green and Northup, above.
The novels and tales: WC edn. Ed C. K. Shorter 11 vols 1906–19.
Biographical and critical introds; includes The life of Charlotte
Brontë; vol 10 includes a few misattributed items (see Attributed
or spurious works below). For details of vols and contents see §1,
below, and Northup, above.
Selections
For lifetime gatherings of stories and other items, see §1, below. Only selections
edited or with a significant introd are given below.
Cousin Phillis and other tales. Introd by T. Seccombe 1912 (EL);
introd by M. Lane 1970 (EL). Contains Cousin Phillis, My lady
Ludlow, Half a life-time ago, Right at last, The sexton’s hero.
The sexton’s hero and other tales. Introd by A. S. Whitfield, Tokyo
1932. Contains The sexton’s hero, The squire’s story, The
Manchester marriage, The half-brothers.
The cage at Cranford and other tales. Introd by P. Beard 1937.
Contains The cage at Cranford, The grey woman, The Manchester
marriage, Half a life-time ago, Cousin Phillis.
Cousin Phillis and other tales. Ed A. Easson 1981 (WCp). Contains
Lizzie Leigh, The old nurse’s story, Half a life-time ago, Lois the
witch, The crooked branch, Curious, if true, Cousin Phillis.
Elizabeth Gaskell: four short stories. Introd by A. Walters 1983.
Contains The well of Pen Morfa, The Manchester marriage,
Libbie Marsh’s three eras, Lizzie Leigh.
My lady Ludlow and other stories. Introd by E. Wright 1989 (WCp).
Contains My lady Ludlow, An accursed race, The doom of the
Griffiths, The poor Clare, The half-brothers, Mr Harrison’s confessions,
Round the sofa (preface and links).
A dark night’s work and other stories. Ed S. Lewis 1992 (WCp).
Contains A dark night’s work, Libbie Marsh’s three eras, Six
weeks at Heppenheim, Cumberland sheep-shearers, The grey
woman.
Curious, if true: strange tales by Mrs Gaskell. Introd by J. Uglow
1995. Contains The old nurse’s story, The poor Clare, Lois the
witch, The grey woman, Curious, if true.
The moorland cottage and other stories. Ed S. Lewis 1995 (WCp).
Contains The moorland cottage, The sexton’s hero, Christmas
storms and sunshine, The well of Pen Morfa, The heart of John
Middleton, Morton Hall, My French master, The Manchester
marriage, Crowley Castle.
§1
See also collected edns and selections. Edns pbd during Gaskell’s lifetime and
subsequent edns with significant critical or textual material are given below.
In addition, her work in Dickens’s Household Words and All the Year
Round appeared in reprints of those jnls in America and Germany.
Libbie Marsh’s three eras. 3 weekly pts Howitt’s Jnl 1, 5–19 June 1847
(as Life in Manchester: Libbie Marsh’s three eras. By Cotton
Mather Mills, Esq [pseudonym]); rptd Liverpool [1850], [1850]; in
Lizzie Leigh and other tales 1855, Leipzig 1855; in The grey
woman and other tales 1865, Philadelphia 1865; Knutsford edn
vol 1 1906; WC edn vol 8 1913; introd by J. A. V. Chapple, Lancashire
and Cheshire Antiquarian Soc reprints 3 1968; tr Fr 1854.
The sexton’s hero. Howitt’s Jnl 2, 4 Sep 1847; rptd Manchester 1850
(with Christmas storms and sunshine); 1851 (in Christian
Socialist 1, Mar); 1855 (with Christmas storms and sunshine); in
Lizzie Leigh and other tales 1855, Leipzig 1855; 1859 (in The
Parish Mag 1); in Cousin Phillis and other tales 1865; Knutsford
edn vol 1 1906; WC edn vol 7 1911; tr Fr 1867.
Christmas storms and sunshine. Howitt’s Jnl 3, 1 Jan 1848; rptd
Manchester 1850 (with The sexton’s hero); 1851 (in Christian
Socialist 1, Mar–Apr); 1855 (with Sexton’s hero); in Lizzie Leigh
and other tales 1855, Leipzig 1855; in The grey woman and other
tales 1865, Philadelphia 1865; Knutsford edn vol 2 1906; WC edn
vol 8 1913; tr Fr 1864.
Mary Barton: a tale of Manchester life. 2 vols 1848 (anon), 1849, 1849,
1 vol New York 1849, Leipzig 1849, 2 vols London 1850, 1 vol 1854
(includes 2 lectures by W. Gaskell on the Lancashire dialect), New
York 1855, London 1861, New York 1864, London 1865, Knutsford
edn vol 1 1906; WC edn vol 1 1906; introd by T. Seccombe 1911 (EL);
introd by L. Cooper 1947; introd by M. Brightfield, New York
1958; introd by K. Dick, London 1966; introd by M. Lane 1967
(EL); ed S. Gill 1970 (Pen); ed E. Wright 1987 (WCp); ed A. Easson
Halifax 1993; ed A. Easson, introd J. Uglow 1994 (EL); ed M. Daly
1996 (Pen); ed A. Shelston 1996 (EL pbk); tr Du 1849, Fr 1849
(abridged), 1856, 1956, Ger 1849–50?, Rus 1861 (in part), 1936,
1963, Hungarian 1875, Sp 1879, 1922, Serbo-Croat 1955, Polish
1956, Cz 1960, Romanian 1960, Ital 1981.
reviews: [Chorley, H. F.] Athenaeum 21 Oct 1848; Britannia 21
Oct 1848; Literary Gazette 28 Oct 1848; Standard of Freedom 28
Oct 1848; NMM Nov 1848; Atlas 4 Nov 1848; [Forster, J.] Examiner
4 Nov 1848; John Bull 4 Nov 1848; Inquirer 11 Nov 1848; Critic 15
Nov 1848; Morning Post 24 Nov 1848; Economist 25 Nov 1848;
Sun 30 Nov 1848; Eclectic Rev 25 Jan 1849; British Quart Rev 1 Feb
1849; [Tayler, J. J.] Prospective Rev 1 Feb 1849; Manchester
Guardian 28 Feb 1849; Bradford, J. Christian Examiner (Boston)
Mar 1849; [Greg, W. R.] Edinburgh Rev Apr 1849 (rptd in his
Mistaken aims and attainable ideals of the artisan class, 1876);
[Kingsley, C.] Fraser’s Mag Apr 1849; W. E. [Ellis, W. and M.]
Westminster and Foreign Quart Apr 1849.