General Editor: Joanne Shattock

Advisory Editor: Angus Easson

Volume Editors: Joanne Shattock, Linda Peterson, Josie Billington, Alan Shelston, Charlotte Mitchell, Elisabeth Jay, Linda K Hughes, Deirdre d'Albertis, Marion Shaw, Joanne Wilkes

The Pickering Masters

Part I: Volumes 1–3,5&7: 2376pp: 2005

978 1 85196 777 3: 234x156mm: ￡450.00/$750.00

Part II: Volumes 4,6,8–10: 2704pp: 2006

978 1 85196 782 7: 234x156mm: ￡450.00/$750.00

Contents

Volume 1

Journalism, Early Fiction and Personal Writings including:

Diary 1835–8, privately printed (1923); ‘On Visiting the Grave of my Stillborn Little Girl’ (1836); ‘Sketches among the Poor – No. I’, Blackwood’s Magazine (1837); ‘Clopton Hall’ in W Howit, Visits to Remarkable Places (1840); ‘Cheshire Customs’ in W Howit, The Rural Life of England (1840); ‘Manchester Christmas Trees’ in W Howit, The Rural Life of England (1840); ‘Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras’, ‘The Sexton’s Hero’, Howitt’s Journal (1847); ‘Christmas Storms and Sunshine’, Howitt’s Journal (1848); ‘Hand and Heart’, Sunday School Penny Magazine (1849); ‘Martha Preston’, Sartain’s Union Magazine (1850); ‘Lizzie Leigh’, ‘The Well of Pen-Morfa’, ‘The Heart of John Middleton’, Household Words (1850); ‘Disappearances’, Household Words (1851); Review of Spiritual Alchemy, Athenaeum (1851); Review of Longfellow, The Golden Legend, Athenaeum (1851); ‘Bessy’s Troubles at Home’, Sunday School Penny Magazine (1852); ‘The Schah’s English Gardener’, Household Words (1852); ‘Cumberland Sheep-Shearers’, Household Words (1853); ‘Traits and Stories of the Huguenots’, Household Words (1853); ‘Modern Greek Songs’, ‘Company Manners’, Household Words (1854); Preface, annotation and interpolated material to [M Cummins], Mabel Vaughan (1857); Preface to C Vecchi, Garibaldi at Caprera (1862); ‘Shams’, Fraser’s Magazine (1863); ‘An Italian Institution’, All the Year Round (1863); ‘Robert Gould Shaw’, Macmillan’s Magazine (1863); ‘French Life’, Fraser’s Magazine (1864); Review of Torrens, Lancashire Lessons, The Reader (1865); ‘Two Fragments of Ghost Stories’ (1906)

Volume 2

Novellas and Shorter Fiction: The Moorland Cottage, Cranford and Related Writing

The Moorland Cottage (1850); ‘The Last Generation in England’, Sartain’s Union Magazine (1849); ‘Mr Harrison’s Confessions’, Ladies’ Companion (1851); Cranford, Household Words (1851–3); ‘The Cage at Cranford’, All the Year Round (1863)

Volume 3

Novellas and Shorter Fiction: Round the Sofa and Tales from Household Words 1852–9

‘The Old Nurse’s Story’, A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire, Household Words (1852); ‘Morton Hall’, ‘My French Master’, Household Words (1853); ‘The Squire’s Story’, Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire, Household Words Extra Christmas Number (1853); ‘An Accursed Race’, Household Words (1855); ‘Half a Life-time Ago’, revised from ‘Martha Preston’, Household Words (1855); ‘The Poor Clare’, Household Words (1856); ‘The Doom of the Griffiths’, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (1858); ‘My Lady Ludlow’, Household Words (1858); ‘The Sin of a Father’, reprinted as ‘Right at Last’, Household Words (1858); ‘The Manchester Marriage’, Household Words Extra Christmas Number (1858); ‘The Half-Brothers’, Round the Sofa (1859)

Volume 4

Novellas and Shorter Fiction: Cousin Phillis and other Tales from All the Year Round and the Cornhill Magazine 1859–64

‘Lois the Witch’, All the Year Round (1859); ‘The Ghost in the Garden Room’, reprinted as ‘The Crooked Branch’, The Haunted House, All the Year Round Extra Christmas Number (1859); ‘Curious if True’, Cornhill Magazine (1860); ‘The Grey Woman’, All the Year Round (1861); ‘Six Weeks at Heppenheim’, Cornhill Magazine (1862); ‘A Dark Night’s Work’, All the Year Round (1863); Cousin Phillis, Cornhill Magazine (1863–4); ‘How the First Floor went to Crowley Castle’, reprinted as ‘Crowley Castle’, Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgings, All the Year Round Extra Christmas Number (1863)

Volume 5

Mary Barton (1848)

Volume 6

Ruth (1853)

Volume 7

North and South (1855)

Volume 8

The Life of Charlotte Bront? (1857)

Volume 9

Sylvia’s Lovers (1863)

Volume 10

Wives and Daughters (1866)

Reviews

'Long overdue, this edition of the writings of Elizabeth Gaskell is the first to appear in almost a century... [it] surpasses previous collections by including miscellaneous writings as well as novels, novellas, and short stories. All the material has been reedited and excellent explanatory notes and up-to-date bibliographies of Gaskell studies add to the value... Every research library must own this collection, and other libraries would do well to add these well-made and well-edited volumes to their 19th-century British literature collections. Summing Up: Essential. All readers; all levels'

– CHOICE

'Beautifully printed, produced in fine bindings on long-lasting paper...in the twenty-first century Elizabeth Gaskell’s writing can receive the kind of attention that it deserves'

– Heather Glen, The Times Literary Supplement

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