Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865)
(a.k.a. "Mrs. Gaskell"; English social-realist novelist)

Works
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life. 1848. Ed. Edgar Wright. Oxford: Oxford UP.

_____. Mary Barton. (Penguin Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin.

_____. From Mary Barton. In The Arnold Anthology of British and Irish Literature in English. Ed. Robert Clark and Thomas Healy. London: Arnold, 1997. 913-23.*

_____. (Anon.). "The Old Nurse's Story." 1852. Rpt. in Gaskell's Lizzie Leigh, and Other Tales. 1855. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, with Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 2.1318-33.*

_____. Cranford. Novel. 1853. Ed. Elizabeth Porges Watson. Oxford: Oxford UP.

_____. Cranford. Ware: Wordsworth.

_____. "Lizzie Leigh." Short story. In Gaskell, North and South. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 2004.

_____. North and South. Novel. 1854-5. Ed. Angus Easson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1977.*

_____. North and South. Ed. Angus Easson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.

_____. North and South. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994. 1997.

_____. North and South. Ware: Wordsworth.

_____. North and South. (Penguin Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin.

_____. North and South. Ed. Alan Shelston. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 2004.

_____. Lizzie Leigh, and Other Tales. 1855.

_____. Sylvia's Lovers. Ed. Andrew Sanders. Oxford: Oxford UP.

_____. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. 1857.

_____. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. (Penguin Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin.

_____. Ruth. Novel. 1853.

_____. Ruth. Ed. Alan Shelston. Oxford: Oxford UP.

_____. The Crooked Branch. 1859.

_____. The Grey Woman. 1865.

_____. Wives and Daughters. 1865.

_____. Wives and Daughters. Ed. Angus Easson. Oxford: Oxford UP.

_____. Wives and Daughters. (Penguin Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin.

_____. Cousin Phillis and Other Tales. 1865.

_____. Cousin Phillis and Other Tales. Ed. Angus Easson. Oxford: Oxford UP.

_____. "Curious If True." From Cousin Phillis and Other Tales. In Great English Short Stories. Ed. Lewis Melville and Reginald Hargreaves. London: Harrap, 1931. 460-73.*

_____. "The Heart of John Middleton." In The Oxford Book of English Love Stories. Ed. John Sutherland. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. 23-43.*

_____. Works. London: Smith, Elder, 1906.

_____. A Dark Night's Work and Other Stories. Ed. Suzanne Lewis. Oxford: Oxford UP.

_____. My Lady Ludlow and Other Stories. Ed. Edgar Wright. Oxford: Oxford UP.

_____. Cranford and Cousin Phyllis. (Penguin Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin.

_____. Works. Knutsford edition. Electronic ed. http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/˜matsuoka/EG-etexts.html#Digitization

Biography
Chadwick, Ellis H. Mrs Gaskell: Haunts, Homes, and Stories. London, 1910.

Gérin, Winifred. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Biography. Oxford: Clarendon, 1976. Oxford UP, 1990.

Beer, Patricia. Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. London: Macmillan, 1974.

Carse, Wendy K. "A Penchant for Narrative: 'Mary Smith' in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford." Journal of Narrative Technique 20.3 (1990): 318-330.*

Cazamian, Louis. Le Roman social en Angleterre. Paris: Didier, 1904.

_____. The Social Novel in England. London: Routledge, 1973.*

_____. (On Gaskell's North and South). From The Social Novel in England. In Gaskell, North and South. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 2004.

Cecil, David. "Mrs. Gaskell." In Cecil, Early Victorian Novelists: Essays in Revaluation. London: Constable, 1934. 197-244.*

Craik, W. A. Elizabeth Gaskell and the English Provincial Life. London, 1975.

Crespo Allué, María José. "Wives and Daughters de Mrs Gaskell: Ecos austenianos." ES 12 (1982): 163-94.*

Durán Giménez-Rico, Isabel."Elizabeth vs. Mrs Gaskell: The 'Doubletalk' of a Neglected Victorian." Actas del XXI Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN. Ed. F. Toda et al. Sevilla: U de Sevilla, 1999. 353-58.*

Eagleton, Terry. "Sylvia's Lovers and Legality." Essays in Criticism 26 (1976): 17-27.

Easson, Angus, ed. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, 1991.

Edgecombe, R. S. "Two Female Saviours in Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Jeanie Deans and Mary Barton." English Studies 77.1 (January 1996): 45-58.*

Felber, Lynette. "Gaskell's Industrial Idylls: Ideology and Formal Incongruence in Mary Barton and North and South." Clio 18.1 (Fall 1988).

Flint, Kate. Elizabeth Gaskell. (Writers and Their Work). Plymouth: Northcote House / British Council, 1995.*

Gallagher, Susan Van Zanten, and Mark D. Wallhout. Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere. (Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture). Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000. (King Lear, The Brothers Karamazov, "Bartleby the Scrivener", Gaskell, Auden, Raymond Carver, Sherman Alexie).

Harman, Barbara Leah. The Feminine Political Novel in Victorian England. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1998. (Gaskell, Brontë, Meredith, Elizabeth Robins).

Horsman, Alan. The Victorian Novel. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.

Koustinoudi, Anna. "Narrative Voice and Gender in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford." Gramma/Gramma 9 (2001): 113-28.*

Krueger, Christine L. "The 'Female Paternalist' as Histoiran: Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow." In Rewriting the Victorians. Ed. Linda M. Shires. London: Routledge, 1992. 166-83.*

Lanser, Susan Sniader. "Single Resistances: The Communal 'I' in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux." In Lanser, Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice. Ithaca (NY): Cornell UP, 1992. (Marguerite Audoux). 239-54.*

Miller, J. Hillis. "Fourteen: Apollyon in Cranford." In Miller, Reading Narrative. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1998. 178-226.* (Gaskell, Pater).

Mulvihill, James. "Economies of Living in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford." Nineteenth-Century Literature 50.3 (December 1995): 337-56.*

Peck, John. Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.

Poovey, Mary. "Disraeli, Gaskell, and the Condition of England." In The Columbia History of the British Novel. Ed. John Richetti et al. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. 508-32.*

Price, Leah. "The Life of Charlotte Bronte and the Death of Miss Eyre." Studies in English Literature 1500- 1900 35.4 (1995): 757-768.*

Ricks, Christopher. Essays in Appreciation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Ritchie, Lady. "Mrs Gaskell." In Ritchie, Blackstick Papers. London, 1908.

Sanders, Andrew. "Suffering a Sea-Change: Mrs Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers." In Sanders, The Victorian Historical Novel 1840-1880. London: Macmillan, 1978. 197-228.

Sharp, John Geoffrey. Mrs Gaskell's Observations and Invention: A Study of her Non-Biographical Works. Fontwell (Sussex): Linden Press, 1970.

Stoneman, Patsy. Elizabeth Gaskell. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1987.

Uglow, Jenny. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. 1993.

Venegas Lagüéns, María Luisa. "Contrasted Characters Through Speech: A Study of Two Minor Characters in Mrs Gaskell's Ruth." In Aspectos comparativos en la lengua y literatura de habla inglesa: AEDEAN, Actas del IX Congreso Nacional. Murcia: AEDEAN-Departamento de Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Murcia, 1986. 159-64.

Ward, A. W. "XI. The Political and Social Novel: Disraeli, Charles Kingsley, Mrs. Gaskell, 'George Eliot'." In The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, vol. XIII (English) The Victorian Age, part One: The Nineteenth Century, II. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Online at Bartleby.com

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Internet resources

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Journals
Gaskell Society Journal.