Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (aka Mrs. Gaskell) was a Victorian-era novelist and short-story writer. She is well-known for her 1857 biography of Charlotte Brontë and for her ghost stories.

Bibliography

Novels

• Mary Barton (1848)
• Cranford (1851-3)
• Ruth (1853)
• North and South (1854-5)
• Sylvia's Lovers (1863)
• Cousin Phillis (1864)
• Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story (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)

• The Squire's Story (1853)
• Half a Life-time Ago (1855)
• An Accursed Race (1855)
• 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)
• Christmas Storms and Sunshine
• "The Old Nurse's Story"

Non-fiction

• The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)