This collection contains the complete works of the great Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, including novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and a biography of Charlotte Bronte.

Introduction:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Novels:

Mary Barton

The Moorland Cottage

Cranford

Ruth

North and South

Sylvia's Lovers

Wives and Daughters

A Dark Night's Work

Short Stories & Novellas:

Round the Sofa

My Lady Ludlow

An Accursed Race

The Doom of the Griffiths

Half a Life-Time Ago

The Poor Clare

The Half-Brothers

Cousin Phillis

Company Manners

Mr. Harrison's Confessions

The Sexton's Hero

The Grey Woman

Curious if True

Six Weeks at Heppenheim

Libbie Marsh's Three Eras

Christmas Storms and Sunshine

Hand and Heart

Bessy's Troubles at Home

Disappearances

Lizzie Leigh

The Well of Pen-Mortha

The Heart of John Middleton

Traits and Stories of the Huguenots

Morton Hall

My French Master

The Squire's Story

Right at Last

The Manchester Marriage

Lois the Witch

The Crooked Branch

The Old Nurse's Story

Clopton House

Crowley Castle

Two Fragments of Ghost Stories

The Shah's English Gardener

Martha Preston

The Deserted Mansion

Uncle Peter

A Visit to Eton

The Cage at Cranford

Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family

The Ghost in the Garden Room

Poetry:

Sketches Among the Poor

Bran

The Scholar's Story

Other Works:

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

The Last Generation in England

Cumberland Sheep-Shearers

Traits and Stories of The Hugenots

Modern Greek Songs

French Life

An Italian Institution

Shams

A Fear for the Future

Biography:

Mrs. Gaskell and Knutsford by George A. Payne

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.